Re: removing permissions for long unused accounts, take 2

[Eric Blake]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 11:54:03AM +0200, Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion 
list wrote:
> Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
> 
> > Therefore I would now like to actually do it.
> 
> Thanks for working on this, it is important!
> 
> Maybe I am getting old, but one year seems like a fairly short period of
> time.  The list would be shortened with the following names if we used
> two years:
> 
>     Daiki Ueno
>     Dmitry V. Levin
>     Eric Blake
>     Siddhesh Poyarekar
> 
> So not radically different actually.  It would be bad if this excercise
> lead to less contributions.
> 
> How about using the one-year time frame, but give the person 6 months of
> time after an email notifying them about this situation to make another
> contribution and thus stay as committer?

Looks like it has been a while since I pushed something into gnulib,
but with this sort of 6-month notice, I'd definitely find reason for
something ;)

Meanwhile, I'm on board with the idea of pruning the list of write
access to frequent contributors (even if I temporarily fail to meet
that standard).  It doesn't seem onerous to re-establish permissions
if my situation changes to make it easier for me to contribute more
direct patches again.

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