[python-committers] Missing In Action

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sun Jun 17 21:18:07 EDT 2018


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 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> 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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