[PD-dev] cleaning up the list of developers

[Martin Peach]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>   
>> Hallo,
>> IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>>> I propose that we leave Gerard van Dongen and Jamie Tittle on the
>>>>> list since they are still with us in spirit.
>>>>>           
>>> i regret that i do not fully understand this request either.
>>> while both of them have contributed a lot and chances are high that they
>>> would be contributing if they were still with us, i do not see a point
>>> in treating them as if they were still among us.
>>> a usual clause for "vereins"-members (in morbid austria) is, that their
>>> membership ends with their death.
>>>
>>> personally, i would not want to do the removal of jamie or gerard just
>>> because they are no longer with us. but i have little problem in having
>>> their sourceforge accounts be part of an automated process.
>>>       
>> I agree with that. It's a delicate issue: James and Gerard will be
>> with us in spirit. They belong to the project as long as the project
>> exists.
>>
>> But if we update the list and make it into a list of active developers
>> - something which I would advocate - it would not be appropriate to keep
>> their accounts in that list.
>>
>> We should avoid to create the impression, that James' and Gerard's
>> developer accounts are only listed because someone "forgot" to update
>> the list.
>>     
>
> I guess that I am the only sentimental one here.  I just thought it would 
> be a nice gesture to leave them there.
>
>   

If you want them to be remembered, it may be better to name something 
after them. Not many people will be perusing the list of developers.

Martin