Path: csiph.com!news.samoylyk.net!gothmog.csi.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: =?UTF-8?Q?Louis-Philippe_V=C3=A9ronneau?= Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Thoughts on removing access to the Python teams repositories to inactive members ? Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:20:01 +0100 Message-ID: X-Original-To: "debian-python@lists.debian.org" X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon Jan 12 17:12:13 2026 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-108.01 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, BODY_8BITS=1.5, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0.001, USER_IN_DKIM_WELCOMELIST=-0.01, USER_IN_DKIM_WHITELIST=-100] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US Autocrypt: addr=pollo@debian.org; keydata= xjMEYEPdjBYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdA5yh8SOHhcvKeX/A4rv0/JTCL8Kgnnwy4/okKh1Htbs3N LExvdWlzLVBoaWxpcHBlIFbDqXJvbm5lYXUgPHBvbGxvQGRlYmlhbi5vcmc+wpYEExYKAD4C GwMFCwkIBwMFFQoJCAsFFgIDAQACHgECF4AWIQT2TWHTIfPLSJFWdT3h5UV8i61BEwUCZb/f iAUJDuIDfAAKCRDh5UV8i61BEzdaAP0cGJp8CpkywzefhdaJjfK5/uAQLRg5Bk6yCWnyR8B4 wQEAxA4C39PJPsosgOVBMdfkzCPhGVynYBnujOyEcksX1w/OOARgQ+DlEgorBgEEAZdVAQUB AQdAgRLbDfS/6GLXd15qI9zHso9UwJQgDbme7pvL1Z9rkG4DAQgHwn4EGBYKACYCGwwWIQT2 TWHTIfPLSJFWdT3h5UV8i61BEwUCZb/fsAUJDuIASgAKCRDh5UV8i61BEwYaAQDhvbQQqmTD F/fdodzfiY45IWYckb9rCvKaVnfP6DOY9QEA/eeaEWmOq2NpOYpBesVjBZCLe8jKv1WPMfLL YOfDIAc= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Debian-User: pollo X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/23588 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/a802c5c8-57ce-43a1-ba71-251ae96f0409@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 27 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:11:57 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:17338 Hello! I'm frequently replying to people asking to join the Python Team and as per our policy, we are pretty liberal in granting access to our repositories :) That's great, but of course, the more people have access to the repositories, the more potential for abuse. There are currently 539 members of the team on Salsa and some of these members haven't been active in the team for a while. I was wondering what people thought of removing access to accounts that haven't been active between 2023 to 2026. I think a 3 years cutoff is fair? A quick look on Salsa lists around 75 accounts that would meet that criteria. Of course, people that would be removed could always ask to be added again, if they need access to a repository ;) Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ pollo@debian.org / veronneau.org ⠈⠳⣄