[webkit-dev] Inactive Committers and Reviewers

[Simon Fraser]

I plan to implement these changes, via additions to contributors.json, in the near future, by making inactive any committer/reviewer who has not exercised their privilege in the past year. There will be a few VIPs who retain their commit and/or review rights.

I do not intend to email people whose status changes. If someone loses commit access because of these changes, they can request reinstatement by emailing webkit-reviewers.

Simon

> On Jul 9, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello WebKittens,
> 
> WebKit reviewers recently had a discussion about the large number of inactive committers and reviewers left after the Blink fork, and we've come to introduce a new policy to consider committers and reviewers who have not contributed to the project over one year "inactive".  In addition, any subversion account that hasn't been used to commit a code change to svn.webkit.org <http://svn.webkit.org/> over one year is subject to the deactivation. [1]
> 
> The policy change has been enacted as of r170904 <http://trac.webkit.org/r170904> which added the following section to the WebKit Committers and Reviewer Policy <http://www.webkit.org/coding/commit-review-policy.html>.
> 
> 
> Inactive Committer or Reviewer Status
> 
> A WebKit Committer or Reviewer that has not been active in the project for over a year is considered inactive. Activity for this purpose is defined as landing at least one patch in the past year. Reviewers who have reviewed a patch in the past year will also be considered active.
> 
> Inactive Committers can regain Active Committer status by landing (via the Commit Queue) a non-trivial patch and asking on webkit-reviewers for a return to Active status.
> 
> Inactive Reviewers need to show that they are making an effort to get  familiar with the changes that have happened in the project since they were 
> last active by landing at least 3 non-trivial patches. Once they have landed the patches, they need to send an email requesting reactivation to webkit-reviewers. This request needs the support of 2 Active Reviewers to be granted.
>  
> Note that regardless of a Committer or Reviewer's activity status, any subversion account that has not been used in the past year will be deactivated for security purposes. For example, a Reviewer that has reviewed a patch in the past year but has not committed may have their subversion account deactivated. To reactivate a deactivated subversion account, an Active Committer or Active Reviewer can send an email to webkit-reviewers requesting it.
> 
> 
> - R. Niwa
> 
> [1] For the initial mass deactivation, I will send an email to each address associated with the subversion account and give the account owner an option to keep it active.

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