Tim Blechmann wrote:
i am not really a fan of removing people from a project, but maybe one could distinguish between 'active' and 'retired' developers ... retired developers should loose their cvs access, but still kept in the sourceforge developer lists ...
i agree with hans that i don't understand the reasoning behind this.
the list of project participants should not be mistaken as an "authors" list (there are lots of contributors of pd-core, external- and abstraction- code who have never enroled in the pd-cvs)
and deleting somebody from the list of project members is not an attempt to undo history. the repository logs will still hold the name of the original author.
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.
mfa.sdr IOhannes