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[python-committers] Missing In Action

Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Sun Jun 17 21:21:05 EDT 2018 
On 6/17/2018 9:18 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> We could call them  "dormant".

Sounds good.

> And I obviously support culling our membership list for the exact 
> reasons Victor listed (especially since I was planning to do this at 
> some point anyway :) .
> 
> My only question is whether we care about leaving people on b.p.o who 
> have gone dormant with triage privileges as well? It's much less 
> important, but if they haven't contributed in a while they probably are 
> not up to sped with triage practices and thus might do something wrong 
> by accident.

I think disabling their access is a good idea from an infosec 
perspective. It's not like it's onerous to re-enable them if they 
express any renewed interest.

Eric

> 
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 at 14:38 Jack Jansen <jack.jansen at cwi.nl 
> <mailto:jack.jansen at cwi.nl>> wrote:
> 
>     I think I am one of those core developers who hasn’t committed
>     anything in ages (even though I do have a git account and am
>     somewhat following what goes on), but the term missing in action may
>     be a bit too loaded….
> 
>     How about “missing in inaction”?
> 
>     :-)
> 
>     Jack
> 
> 
>>     On  16-Jun-2018, at 02:03 , Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com
>>     <mailto:vstinner at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     "Missing In Action"
>>
>>     Oh. After I sent my email, I checked the translation of "Missing In
>>     Action". It means more or less "lost", but it seems to be commonly
>>     associated to war:
>>
>>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_in_action
>>     "a casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains,
>>     combat medics, and prisoners of war who are reported missing during
>>     wartime or ceasefire"
>>
>>     I don't recall where I heard the expression, but I didn't mean that
>>     inactive developers are dead :-) I'm quite sure that there is life
>>     after Python. Right?
>>
>>     Victor
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