<div dir="ltr"><div>We could call them  "dormant".</div><div><br></div><div>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 :) .</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 at 14:38 Jack Jansen <<a href="mailto:jack.jansen@cwi.nl">jack.jansen@cwi.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">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….<div><br></div><div>How about “missing in inaction”?</div><div><br></div><div>:-)</div><div><br></div><div>Jack</div><div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On  16-Jun-2018, at 02:03 , Victor Stinner <<a href="mailto:vstinner@redhat.com" target="_blank">vstinner@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-962395830275421894Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>"Missing In Action"<br><br>Oh. After I sent my email, I checked the translation of "Missing In<br>Action". It means more or less "lost", but it seems to be commonly<br>associated to war:<br><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_in_action" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_in_action</a><br>"a casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains,<br>combat medics, and prisoners of war who are reported missing during<br>wartime or ceasefire"<br><br>I don't recall where I heard the expression, but I didn't mean that<br>inactive developers are dead :-) I'm quite sure that there is life<br>after Python. Right?<br><br>Victor<br>_______________________________________________<br>python-committers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:python-committers@python.org" target="_blank">python-committers@python.org</a><br><a href="https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers" target="_blank">https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers</a><br>Code of Conduct: <a href="https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/" target="_blank">https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><div>
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