On 03/20/2016 09:08 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
Hi Christian,
On 20 March 2016 at 14:03, Christian Boltz
wrote: That makes it less likely that people actually use their @opensuse.org mail address because "it could go away". That also means less "advertising" for openSUSE.
I'd propose to keep the mail address even for retired members (unless someone actively asks to drop it, or it starts bouncing mails).
I understand where you are coming from, but with the planned approach being implemented with the philosophy of "you are a member as long as you want to be one" then members only have to worry about the address "going away" if they no longer want to be a member
I don't think it's too much to ask that people maintain an interest in the openSUSE Project if they are going to represent us with an @opensuse.org email address
It is not too much to ask, IMHO. However, the proposal as a re-run still comes with the ignorance of issues that were raise previously by those that have taken part in these types of discussions over the years. Those concerns were often about timing and yes they can be interpreted as theoretical. However as they keep re-appearing, the issues are real to those that are concerned. Not addressing the issues and moving forward with what is basically unmodified does not help, IMHO. For example, a person that is involved with the project but does not show up in the statistics collected by the tool(s) gets the "hey are you still around" e-mail, so far so good. But lets say that for whatever reason the e-mail gets lost or gets no response for 30 days, then the member is retired, if I understand things correctly. This is not necessarily a big deal as the "just send us a message and your status gets changed back to active with no questions asked" policy makes the reinstatement process easy. However, that does not address the fact that for the person that is actually an active member their @opensuse.org e-mail was deactivated for at least some period of time. Maybe this can be addressed by different time periods and different e-mail notifications. Maybe a retired member gets to keep @opensuse.org for a year and receives multiple messages during that year. I have no idea what the best solution is. I do know from having been part of these conversations a very long time that 30 days is not considered to be sufficient by many people. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Public Cloud Architect LINUX rjschwei@suse.com IRC: robjo