<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello WebKittens,</div><div><br></div><div>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 "<i>inactive</i>". In addition, any subversion account that hasn't been used to commit a code change to <a href="http://svn.webkit.org">svn.webkit.org</a> over one year is subject to the deactivation. [1]</div>
<div><br></div><div>The policy change has been enacted as of <a href="http://trac.webkit.org/r170904">r170904</a> which added the following section to <a href="http://www.webkit.org/coding/commit-review-policy.html">the WebKit Committers and Reviewer Policy</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Inactive Committer or Reviewer Status</b></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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 </div>
<div>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.</div>
<div> </div><div>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.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- R. Niwa</div><div><br></div><div>[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.</div>
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