Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Remove resume feature to prevent abuse?

[John Sullivan]

On March 11, 2019 9:50:20 AM PDT, Ineiev <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 09:20:47AM -0700, John Sullivan wrote:
>> On March 11, 2019 9:03:32 AM PDT, Ineiev <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >
>> >I checked the records for <rms> as a datapoint. that account
>> >has never been used in any trackers, and there was a period
>> >of 6 years when essentially no group status for that account
>> >was modified. of course, he did commit to VCS, but this is
>> >considerably harder to check.
>> 
>> Yes, I'm sure we would need a whitelist for certain special accounts
>like
>> RMS.
>
>I'm not sure the whitelist wouldn't be too long for us to maintain.
>
>> That's not really a data point for anything else, is it?
>
>Why not? what prevents any random account from behaving like
>that (i.e. no tracker activity, a constant set of groups virtually
>forever)? I think it's a valid pattern for an admin of a package
>that only uses, say, Hg, download area, web pages and mailing lists.

Actually, we wouldn't need a whitelist. The only activity requirement in the 
criteria I've seen in several other places to prevent deletion was logging in. 
That's not too much to ask every rarely so often. RMS can do it, or staff can 
do it for him.