[Ambassadors] Discussion: revoking ambassador status

Pierre-Yves Chibon pingou at pingoured.fr
Tue Mar 11 14:37:07 UTC 2014


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:30:05PM +0000, Tristan Santore wrote:
> 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.
> >
> 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 ?

That is indeed not the case :)

Unless we issue a distro-wide password change in FAS. Only then, if you do not
change your password, your account will be deactivated.

Pierre



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