[xine-devel] developer cleanup - stage 2

[Siggi L. <lan...@fa...>]

Hi all,

this is just a quick note: I've finally sent out emails to all candidates
for removal. You'll find a copy of such an email below.

At the same time, I've finally managed to click through the admin
permission settings, so the list of project admis at his time sould be
exactly this:

- Daniel
- Michael
- Miguel
- Mike
- Siggi
- Thibaut

(which I hope reflects the status quo correctly. So all admins: please
 double-check!)

And we do have our first completed removal: Dennis Bjorklund volunteered
to be removed immedately.

While looking at that stuff, I noticed that we could actually restrict CVS
acces in a more fine-grained way using a cvs_acl script. This way,
"xinehq" (our never-sleeping website updating slave ;) could get read-only
access. Is this something I should try to implement (at the risk of
rendering CVS unusable for a few h)?

More to come next week...

	Siggi

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 22:02:29 +0100
From: Siggi Langauf <si...@xi...>
To: use...@us...
Subject: Are you still working on xine?

(this is a semi-automatic message, if you think you got it in error, please
 reply!)

Hi,

you are currently registered as a developer in the xine project on
sourceforge.net. However, it wasn't obvious if, and in what way, you are
currently working on this project.

While that alone is not really a tragedy, the same is true for about half of
the currently registered (>40) developers. As some of these people may not
even use their SourceForge Accounts any more, this has started to become a
somewhat undesirable situation...
Therefore, the project administrators have decided to do some cleanup:
Inactive developers are going to be removed from the project.

Please note that this has nothing to do with you personally. In fact, you
have made considerable contributions to the project before. At this point,
I'd like to thank you very much for that!

That said, you probably wonder what's going to happen next: If you do not
reply to this message within 1 week (ie. before Saturday, November 15th, UTC),
your account will be removed from the xine project's official list of
developers. That basically means you will cease to have CVS write access.

If you plan to come back at a later time, that's okay. Just send a little
note to xin...@li... saying that you need CVS write access again
and, as a former developer, you should be back in within a few h. ;-)

Even if you do want to leave the project at this time, I'd be glad to get a
little note about your reasons for that decision, btw.

So what if you are actually working on xine right now and need CVS access
for that? (That's not quite unlikely and, again, definitely not your fault.)
No problem, just reply to this message and answer these 2 questions, and
accept my apologies for not knowing the answers myself:

What are you needing CVS acces for?
When are you expecting to make your next CVS commit?

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the inconvenience,


	Siggi