On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 19:28 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:08:53 +0100, Juergen Weigert wrote:
On Feb 20, 12 18:58:05 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
The proposal's intent is to address the question: "Should we move members who have not participated and are uncontactable for a certain period of time into some sort of inactive status?" It's a fair question that Robert ask, and one that deserves some consideration.
It is a fair question, no doubt. But it begs the question as to what constitutes "activity", and that hasn't really been defined. It's hard to discuss moving people to an 'inactive' status if 'active' isn't clearly defined.
We could make passwords expire after say 2 years. Then those definitions become much easier, I'd say.
That doesn't answer the question, it more or less avoids the question.
Jim
And it assumes that passwords are only used by members, which currently isn't the case. Back to Jim's question, Robert's proposal eliminates the need to define inactivity. It is to be based on an honor system. If you are contactable in some way, you will be reminded to fill out a form for membership update/renewal. In that form is some sort of check box where you state "Yes I have done something in the past 2 years." Robert's proposal thus suggests we accept that checkmark on face value and automatically retain the membership status. Yes some people could abuse this privilege, but in the grand scheme of things, why would you care to retain your membership if you have walked away from the Project for so long? And the membership team could, at some point, do a random sampling to see if this honor system was abused in any systematic way. What this really boils down to is simply we are sending a heads up to each member every two years asking "hey, do you still want to be an active member?" and if they say yes, so be it. Therefore, everything essentially remains the same, and those who don't respond get moved to Emeritus status. What could be simpler than this? Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org