Stale Docs Memberships

[Pete Travis]

In the last meeting - and sporadically in the past - we discussed
removing accounts from the docs FAS groups that haven't been active in a
while.  Many organizations have a policy of removing commit access for
users that have left the project. Besides the potential security issues
with accounts that might not be under control, it just makes sense that
people looking for a contact in a given capacity should see a list of
people that are actually active in that capacity.

The proposal that came out of the meeting was to remove accounts from
the docs, docs-writers, and docs-publishers groups after 12 months of
inactivity.  If we reach a consensus, I'll look at some of the methods
used in other groups ( last FAS login, last commit, etc ) and remove
unused accounts from these groups, and then do so again... every so
often. Maybe once per release cycle.

If a deprivileged user happens to be a Guide owner, or if a Guide owner
is observably unresponsive, I think we should make a reasonable attempt
to contact them before removing their privileges.  We'll have to discuss
the future of the Guide as a group, assign a default bz contact, as part
of the process, not just remove them from the groups.
Finally, affected users should know that they're still welcome in the
group, and they need only ask for sponsorship.

Please discuss, opine, or complain about the idea now; we'll vote on it
during the 21July meeting.


-- 
-- Pete Travis
 - Fedora Docs Project Leader
 - 'randomuser' on freenode
 - immanetize at fedoraproject.org


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