Klaas Freitag - 16:15 9.06.15 wrote:
On 09.06.2015 14:21, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Thursday 04 June 2015 08:13:59 Michal Hrusecky wrote:
We discussed this topic at not so recent openSUSE Board Face to Face meeting and touched it on oSC 15 during project meeting. Also taking under consideration the responses that were provided to a similar topic approximately 2 years ago, we (in the board) think it would be a good idea to implement something to help with that. Automatically monitor openSUSE Members activity on mailing lists, OBS, bugzilla, maybe more. Remember when we last saw openSUSE Member on any of those channels and if he doesn't show for for example one year, we can send him e-mail asking whether he still wants to be a member with a link to click to create artificial activity for the automat. And if he doesn't click on it in let's say month, we will retire him - he will be moved to openSUSE retired geekos group. If he comes back and want to be member again or if he was retired by accident, he can be made member again by just clicking on the link from the mail or by asking membership committee and they will approve him without any additional questions.
Automatic monitoring of general activity is difficult, error-prone, and can have all kind of unintended social side effects. It would need quite some effort.
I can not believe that we're really discussing "automatic monitoring of activity". The day on that becomes active will be my last in openSUSE. No, we do not wanna do that. We do not want to have a secret service.
Well, there is quite some difference between monitoring I'm proposing and secret service. First of all, we don't need to store most of the data as they are easily accessible. Secondly, all those data are publicly available. And the use is not to evaluate "quality", but to simply test whether there is any activity at all. So we wouldn't bother active people. Monitoring doesn't need to be perfect. If it fails, we will bother few more members with mails whether they are still around. And we can start with implementing the easy parts. Personally, I would be more concerned about measuring voting activity as votes are not public and thus I would consider measuring who voted as kinda privacy invasion. Apart from that membership is not just about voting, but also about getting nice e-mail address and irc cloak, which was actually main motivation for me to apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org