We could call them "dormant".
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.
On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 at 14:38 Jack Jansen jack.jansen@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@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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