Re: [lintian] Membership audit and clean up - please follow up if you are still active

[Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>]

I haven't touched lintian.d.o in many years now, so please feel free to drop me from the list.

If you do find that you have high bus factor on that afterwards, likewise, don't hesitate to let me know.

Na 6. kolovoza 2017. 12:13:00 CEST, Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have gone through the member list on and removed members that were
>inactive according to Debian's MIA database.
>
>Kindly review and act on the following:
>
>* If you consider yourself retired from lintian, please let me know and
>   I will clean up your access.
> * If you have admin access or lintian-gid, please assert you are still
>   around and know how to use it if needed be.
>
>    => If you have "admin" or "lintian-gid" and I do not hear from you
>    => before 2017-09-01, I will assume you are not around to use it.
>
>Re: admin/lintian-gid: I am interested in having redundancy here so we
>are at least a few members that can do the tasks related to these
>privileges.
>  However, this only works if the people with said access are 1) still
>around to use it and 2) still knows how/when to use it.  Accordingly,
>this mail doubles as a check to see if we have a hidden bus-factor of 1
>on these things.
>
>
>Audit results so far
>====================
>These are the results for checking all the members in alioth against
>the
>MIA database.
>
>
>The following were listed as retired or MIA and is therefore removed:
>
> * jeroen (lintian-gid)
> * he (lintian-gid)
> * edward
> * jorda-guest
>
>This leaves the following (presumed) active members for now:
>
> * joy (lintian-gid)
> * djpig (lintian-gid)
> * broucaries-guest
> * abe
> * sylvestre
> * jwilk
> * pabs
> * lamby
> * cjwatson (admin, lintian-gid)
> * rra (admin, lintian-gid)
> * adsb (admin, lintian-gid)
> * geissert (admin)
> * nthykier (admin, lintian-gid)
>
>Legend:
> * "admin" has administrator access to the lintian project in alioth
>* "lintian-gid" has the lintian group on lindsay.d.o, which gives write
>   access/admin over the archive-wide reporting.
>
>
>From here
>=========
>As we have retired members with lintian-gid, I will send a request to
>DSA to remove the gid from these members.  Once people has had time to
>respond to this and we have evaluated if the bus factor is adequate, I
>will open an RT ticket to get the lintian-gid updated.
>
>
>Thanks,
>~Niels