Over the summer I started reading with amusement this thread and thought of it as the usual flame. Now the things start to take an Orwellian turn. Membership to the project, if I remember correctly, was conditioned, at the time I got mine, by contributions already made and not of future contributions. So discussions about purging members without active contributions sound to me futile. Anyhow despite still contributing as a protest towards all this I will stop contributing and please remove my membership too or post a link were people who had enough of this bickering can resign. Regards, Alin Without Questions there are no Answers! ______________________________________________________________________ Dr. Alin Marin ELENA http://alin.elena.space/ ______________________________________________________________________ On 4 October 2015 at 11:32, Simon Lees <simon@simotek.net> wrote:
On 10/04/2015 03:33 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 03/10/2015 15:26, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
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On 2015-10-03 14:56, Robert Schweikert wrote:
With the exception that you cannot differentiate between the people that are active and do not vote and those that are inactive and do not vote. Thus it is pretty much impossible to "care about the active" people and try to understand why the choose not to vote. That is also an important part about caring for the active people, at least from my perspective.
I think the worry is about inactive members that do vote ;-)
and useful and very easy way to make the problem of less importance would be to add an "abstention" vote. People wanting to vote, but not liking the content can express.
but this do not change the essential question: is voting once in a while enough to be considered as a contributor?
problem is the "contributor" criteria is very difficult to define (for example is somebody that only ask questions on a list a contributor? the answer is not as easy as you may think, because asking question is a good way to keep alive a list and good question can lead to good answer
That said, I don't think we should take all this too serious. I don't see real present reason that could make a "coup" (coup d'état) could happen on openSUSE.
jdd
As I understood the process, we are searching for inactive members so that we can ask them if they still wish to be members and if we get no response or they say they no longer wish to be members we are removing them. From that logic a inactive member can still say they wish to be a member and still vote. I didn't read Richard say anywhere that we were going to remove members who said they still wished to be members but aren’t currently contributing. My understanding could be wrong but if its right I don't see what the fuss is about, cleaning up the list to remove people that don't want to be members anymore or that the project can no longer contact. As has been said if they contact the project in the future saying they wish to be members again they will be re added.
I agree with Richard cleaning up the list makes alot of sense.
Cheers
Simon
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