[webkit-dev] Sunsetting committership and reviewership

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Apr 7, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Benjamin Poulain <benjamin at webkit.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Timothy Hatcher <timothy at apple.com> wrote:
> I think 6 months is fine for deactivating SVN accounts. And a full revoke of reviewer status after 2 years of no activity sounds reasonable to me. We could make it easier to get reviewer status again after a 2 year sunset if the person becomes active again and shows good judgment still.
> 
> +1 to this.
> 
> I think 2 years to revoke reviewer rights is too long. All the drive-by reviews that have caused problems were from reviewers that were inactive for less than 2 years. Nevertheless, 2 years is better than the current situation so it is a good start.

We sometimes get low-quality drive-by reviews even from people who are active at the time. I feel like that's not the right basis for the time cutoff. If we do have a sunset period, we should think about it in terms of how long it takes to be so out of touch with the current state of the project that there's little chance you can give a useful review.

Regards,
Maciej


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