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Re: Thoughts on removing access to the Python teams repositories to inactive members ?

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From	Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: Thoughts on removing access to the Python teams repositories to inactive members ?
Date	Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:40:01 +0100
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Hi,
  I think this idea is good security hygiene. A 3+ years list would help in
a way because it can bring up corner cases or problems wirh the filtering
method, such as:

On Tue, 13 Jan 2026, 8:06 am Louis-Philippe Véronneau, <pollo@debian.org>
wrote:

>
> 1. It's inactivity _in the Debian Python team_ only. That doesn't mean
> these people aren't active members of the Debian community :)
>
> 2. That info is already public:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/groups/python-team/packages/-/group_members?sort=oldest_last_activity

The first item doesn't match the second there.

If the intent is to remove people from the Python team due to not doing
anything with the Python team for (say) 3 years you'll need to look for
that info elsewhere.

That list is sorted by any salsa activity.  For example it says my last
activity was 6 Jan 2026, which it was for the Debian project.

My last Python activity was February 2025.

Now  on that list for 3+ years means they've done nothing on Salsa anywhere
so definitely they've not done anything in the Python project, so its a
good start but won't meet the full goal.

 - Craig

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