[Ambassadors] Discussion: revoking ambassador status

[Tristan Santore]

On 11/03/14 14:21, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 03:07:06PM +0100, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
>> Jiri Eischmann píše v Út 25. 02. 2014 v 11:07 +0100:
>>> Hi,
>>> yesterday we had a long discussion about whether we want to have a
>>> mechanism to remove completely inactive ambassadors or not. This issue
>>> is brought up again and again, so I think it's time to discuss it
>>> properly and eventually make a decision.
>>>
>>> You can find more in this ticket:
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/ticket/358
>>>
>>> Feel free to comment (ideally in the ticket to keep all discussion
>>> there), express your opinion, propose modifications, or even different
>>> solutions. You input is welcome.
>>>
>> I'm bringing an update on this issue. Based on the discussion in this
>> mailing list and in the ticket, we decided that any manual process for
>> removing "inactive" ambassadors is a no-go.
>
>> The combination of FAS logs and datagrepper (that covers attending IRC
>> meetings, using tracs, sending emails to mailing lists, voting in Fedora
>
> For the records, mailing lists are not covered by datagrepper (and even if it
> was, not everyone uses the same email address on FAS and on mailing lists, so
> that would still not work).
>
> Did you run by the infra the option of marking accounts as inactives? Are they
> ok with it? Willing to do it?
>
> Oh and a manual step will be required, there isn't any point in running this
> daily and you will want to leave some times between, say the two emails
> informing that one has not logged into FAS for a while and marking the account
> as inactive. This will require a manual step anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Pierre
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I might be wrong, but I thought if you do not log in to fas for a set 
period, then fas sets the account as inactive after a certain period of 
time. Maybe somebody should talk to Toshio about this ?

Regards,

Tristan

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