<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Simon<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 9, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <<a href="mailto:rniwa@webkit.org" class="">rniwa@webkit.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hello WebKittens,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class="">inactive</i>". In addition, any subversion account that hasn't been used to commit a code change to <a href="http://svn.webkit.org/" class="">svn.webkit.org</a> over one year is subject to the deactivation. [1]</div>
<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The policy change has been enacted as of <a href="http://trac.webkit.org/r170904" class="">r170904</a> which added the following section to <a href="http://www.webkit.org/coding/commit-review-policy.html" class="">the WebKit Committers and Reviewer Policy</a>.</div>
<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Inactive Committer or Reviewer Status</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class="">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 class=""> </div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- R. Niwa</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[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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