[Ambassadors] Discussion: revoking ambassador status

[Onyeibo Oku]

+1 ... I second this

Regards
Onyeibo

On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 21:54 +0300, Arthur Buliva wrote:
> +1. Just what I was thinking but Jiri put it better. I agree with this
> proposition
> 
> On 11 Mar 2014 17:07, "Jiri Eischmann" <eischmann at redhat.com> 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.
>         >
>         > Jiri
>         
>         Hi,
>         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.
>         
>         Pingou of Fedora Infra offered us a tool that would help us
>         achieve what
>         we originally wanted to achieve.
>         
>         The combination of FAS logs and datagrepper (that covers
>         attending IRC
>         meetings, using tracs, sending emails to mailing lists, voting
>         in Fedora
>         elections, writing blogposts in FP,...) can identify
>         ambassadors who
>         haven't had any sign of online activity for the given time
>         period (in
>         FAmSCo we agreed on 18 months, but it's still open) and may
>         not be
>         interested in the project any more.
>         Those ambassadors would be notified by email that their
>         account is going
>         to be flagged as inactive in e.g. 14 days. To avoid it, they
>         can just
>         log in to FAS and they're fine for another 18 months.
>         
>         I'd like to emphasize that no one is going to lose ambassador
>         membership. If someone meets the criteria and doesn't react to
>         the
>         notification message his/her account will just be flagged as
>         inactive
>         and his/her name won't be in the public list of ambassadors,
>         but he/she
>         will keep the membership and can become active again just by
>         logging in
>         to FAS and changing the status to active any time after the
>         deadline.
>         
>         It's not meant to judge someone's activity, it's more like "we
>         haven't
>         seen you around online for some time, give us a wave if you're
>         still
>         interested in the project".
>         
>         In FAmSCo, we agreed this is a non-invasive solution with
>         pretty much no
>         additional bureaucracy that would solve the problem. But we'd
>         again like
>         to know your opinion.
>         
>         Jiri
>         
>         
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