Re: Voting

--On May 3, 2007 9:56:00 AM -0500 Greg Beaver <cellog@php.net> wrote: > future elections, I would like to have an auto-reminder email sent out > to all devs with pear.dev karma for important elections. also, it should only remind those who haven't already voted... :) > In addition, > it is a good time to figure out who is actually an active dev, and mark > the inactive devs as inactive, and provide a more accurate sense of who > is doing work and should be counted as a developer. It would also be > good to automatically reset the inactive flag to active if a developer > votes, opens or comments on a bug, or does anything at pear.php.net. Yes, we should somehow cull the truly gone devs. But, I would argue that even simply accessing the web site (as a logged in dev) should count as "active". I think the first step of the "mark them INactive" process should be to tickle their email address with a "please go here" URL to bring them to the web site which would keep them from going inactive. (Sort of a "pear dev has a pulse" test... :) I think a dev should be considered "inactive" only if they totally evaporate. If they're lurking/listening/reading for a long time, that's fine -- even the tiniest contribution from a long silent, but still active developer should be welcome. If you ever contributed enough to be given dev karma, your opinion counts forever. (Unless, of course, the PEAR Group or whomever yanks your karma for a specific reason. :) -c