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

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From	Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: Thoughts on removing access to the Python teams repositories to inactive members ?
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On 2026-01-12 16:01, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> thanks for raising this!
> 
> I support this proposal but would suggest not to post a list of names on the
> public mailing list, as some people may not feel comfortable
> being publicly listed as inactive.

I understand the feeling but:

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

> Maybe we could contact them directly (for example with an
> automated email) and set an access expiration date via the gitlab
> API.

If someone wants to write a script that poll the Gitlab API and run such 
a service, it would really be cool! I'm not planning on doing that 
though, I'll mostly go "click click click" for a few minutes on the web 
interface and be done with it :P

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