[python-committers] Changing commiter status

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Tue Jun 19 13:38:41 EDT 2018



> On Jun 19, 2018, at 1:35 PM, Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> My intent is to maintain a list of active core developers. If an
> inactive core dev becomes active again, they should be able to
> retrieve quickly the "active" status. Is "emeritus" still a good name
> with such constraint?


Yes. Dropping the permission bits of inactive developers really only works if those developers can more or less no questions asked get those permissions back whenever they want them. Otherwise it’s not really a “we’re just trimming permission lists for security” thing anymore.
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