[PD-dev] sourceforge cleanup

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Thanks for doing this!

.hc

On Feb 10, 2011, at 5:08 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> hi all,
>
> i want to inform you, that i have done a routine cleanup of our
> developers at sourceforge.
>
> 18 people, who have not committed anything within the last two (2)
> years, were contacted on the 2011-01-20 (that was also the deadline  
> for
> the 2 years period), that they are scheduled for removal within one  
> (1)
> week, if they do not oppose.
>
> after that i got into contact with 3 people opposing to their removal,
> and 3 people aggreing to their removal.
>
> today (after 3 weeks of waiting rather than 1 as promised), i have
> revoked developer status of the following inactive members:
> aschix, chr15m, chunlee, david_merrill, grholzi, j45ch, krzyszcz,
> mjmcgonagle, morellid, olafmatt, reakin, xovo
>
> those who do check their fingers, might notice that 2 developers are
> missing. i consider them still pending: ggeiger, of puredata fame, who
> has not yet answered (and it's technically more complicated to  
> remove an
> admin than an ordinary developer); and ix9 who had a bouncing email
> address (but who might be reachable via IRC)
>
>
> mfgadr
> IOhannes
>
> PS: that's the original mail body i sent to all those devs:
>
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> Hi,
>
> you are a registered developer at the "pure-data" sourceforge project,
> which means that you have write access to the repository hosted there.
>
> our project currently has 43 registered developers, some (18) of them
> being inactive.
> as the administrator of the project, i would like to reduce the number
> of developers to the active ones.
>
> since you haven't committed anything within the last two (2) years,  
> you
> are considered to be "inactive", and therefore i would like to remove
> you from the list of developers.
>
> if you ever feel like you need developer status (=write access to the
> repository) again, just send an email to the pd-dev mailinglist.
>
> the list of inactive developers has been assembled in an half- 
> automated
> way.
> so if you feel that this is totally unjustified, please tell me within
> the next week and i will not remove you from the list of active- 
> developers
>
> mfg.asdr
> IOhannes
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