[modeling-pmc] Fw: MDT components and inactive committers

[Kenneth Hussey <khussey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Should we maybe discuss this at our
next PMC meeting? It might be useful for us to document what the Modeling
PMC's policy for dealing with inactive committers is (once we decide on
one). ;)

Kenn Hussey

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Rational Software, IBM Software Group

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Bjorn Freeman-Benson <emo@xxxxxxxxxxx>

07/05/2007 11:36 AM

To	Kenneth Hussey/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
cc	Ed Merks/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA, Christian Damus/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA, emo@xxxxxxxxxxx, Nick Boldt/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
Subject	Re: MDT components and inactive committers

Kenn, Ed, and anyone else who is listening :-)
The Modeling Charter doesn't provide much in the way of guidance nor restrictions
on removing committers, so I've just been telling people that as long as
your process is open and transparent and fair, you can do whatever you
want. My _suggestion_ is: publish an email to the dev mailing list saying
"these people have been inactive for N months and so we are going
to remove their committer status on date Y; comments and critiques are
welcome". Then, after a week (date Y), send Anne (emo@xxxxxxxxxxx)
an email saying "please remove these people as committers on project
P".

Kenneth Hussey wrote: 
The lists below are correct. I'm not
sure whether we can just remove a committer from the list; isn't there
some kind of approval/process involved? In any case, there are a number
of inactive committers on several of the MDT components; I was planning
to send an email to the component leads to identify which committers should
no longer have committer access and take the required steps to remove them
(Bjorn, any guidance here?). 


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