FYI, I'm starting a project to see what has become of some of the inactive developers. Essentially, it involves sending them a note to see if they still have use for their checkin permissions. If not, then we can make the change and improve security a bit. Also, to help with institutional memory, I started a log of changes to developer permissions. The goal is to remember who was given access, by whom, and why (some folks are given access for a one-shot project for example). The file is at Misc/developers. The first entry is for Nick Coghlan who was just granted tracker permissions so he can help manage outstanding bugs and patches. Raymond Hettinger
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 06:47, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Also, to help with institutional memory, I started a log of changes to developer permissions. The goal is to remember who was given access, by whom, and why (some folks are given access for a one-shot project for example). The file is at Misc/developers.
Thanks, Raymond! Would anyone here object to renaming the file to developers.txt, though? -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
Does anyone know what has become of the following developers and perhaps have their current email addresses? Are any of these folks still active in Python development? Ben Gertzfield Charles G Waldman Eric Price Finn Bock Ken Manheimer Moshe Zadka Raymond Hettinger
On Apr 7, 2005, at 07:58, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Does anyone know what has become of the following developers and perhaps have their current email addresses? Are any of these folks still active in Python development?
Ben Gertzfield Charles G Waldman Eric Price Finn Bock Ken Manheimer Moshe Zadka
Moshe was at Pycon (sorry I didn't think of introducing you to each other!) so I do assume he's still active. Alex
On Apr 8, 2005 9:31 AM, Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> wrote:
On Thursday 07 April 2005 10:58, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Eric Price
Eric Price was an intern at CNRI; I think it's safe to remove him from the list, as I've not seen anything from him in a *long* time.
Eric Price did some of the work on the decimal package, which was only two summers ago. He wasn't an intern at CNRI. Jeremy
On Friday 08 April 2005 09:53, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
Eric Price did some of the work on the decimal package, which was only two summers ago. He wasn't an intern at CNRI.
A different Eric Price, then. Mea culpa. (Or am I misremembering the intern's name? Hmm.) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
[Jeremy]
Eric Price did some of the work on the decimal package, which was only two summers ago. He wasn't an intern at CNRI.
[Fred]
A different Eric Price, then. Mea culpa.
(Or am I misremembering the intern's name? Hmm.)
Yes, Eric Price was "the PythonLabs intern", for the brief time that lasted. I'll add info about him to developers.txt. He was given SF developer status specifically to work on the decimal module, which then lived in the Python sandbox. There isn't a reason for him to remain a developer.
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:58, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Ben Gertzfield
Ben did a lot of work on the i18n parts of the email package. I haven't heard from him in quite a while.
Ken Manheimer
Ken's still around. I'll send you his current email address in a separate (pvt) message. -Barry
[Raymond Hettinger]
Does anyone know what has become of the following developers and perhaps have their current email addresses?
How about we exploit that if someone is a Python developer on SF, they necessarily have an SF email address ($(SFNAME)@users.sourceforge.net, like I'm tim_one@users.sourceforge.net)? Then, IMO, if someone with SF commit privs can't be reached via their SF address, they shouldn't have SF commit privs.
Does anyone know what has become of the following developers and
[Raymond Hettinger] perhaps
have their current email addresses?
[Tim Peters]
How about we exploit that if someone is a Python developer on SF, they necessarily have an SF email address ($(SFNAME)@users.sourceforge.net, like I'm tim_one@users.sourceforge.net)?
I used those addresses and sent notes to everyone who hasn't made a recent checkin. For the most part, we've gotten lots of cheerful responses (with one notable exception) indicating a continuing use for the checkin privs. A few people no longer have a use for the access and I'm recording those as we go.
Then, IMO, if someone with SF commit privs can't be reached via their SF address, they shouldn't have SF commit privs.
I'm taking a lighter approach and making every effort to get in contact. If they respond, I'll ask them to update their SF address. Raymond
... [Uncle "Bad Cop" Timmy]
Then, IMO, if someone with SF commit privs can't be reached via their SF address, they shouldn't have SF commit privs.
[Raymond "Good Cop" Hettinger]
I'm taking a lighter approach and making every effort to get in contact. If they respond, I'll ask them to update their SF address.
Of course! I would too, if I were you. But given that I'm still me, the annotated attributions above should clarify the role I'm playing here <0.9 wink>.
[Raymond Hettinger wrote:
I used those addresses and sent notes to everyone who hasn't made a recent checkin.
[Fredrik Lundh]
where recent obviously was defined as "after 2.4" for checkins, and "last week" for tracker activities.
Raymond didn't mention tracker activity above, and that's a different issue -- it's possible now to separate commit privileges from tracker privileges on SourceForge. Like it or not (I think I can guess which), every person with commit privs implies at least one box that can become a security hole, and at least 5 people who in fact never commit anymore were agreeable to giving up SF developer privs.
python-dev was a lot more fun in the old days.
Ya, but you were too -- and so was I. I expect these all go together, given that (the collective) we _are_ python-dev. So what have you been up to lately? Skip it unless the answer's fun <wink>.
Raymond> Does anyone know what has become of ... Raymond> Charles G Waldman I'd scratch Charles from the list. I work at the same company he did. Nobody here has been in touch with him for over a year. Several of us have tried to get ahold of him but to no avail. Skip
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