Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Fwd: Nearly 1000 authors to php.net

Hannes Magnusson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 16:30, Rasmus Lerdorf<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 00:36, Gwynne Raskind<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> There are 343 users in global_avail which have never committed and 271
>>>>> authors not present in global_avail.
>>> Some of those 271 are probably listed in the pear file.
>>>
>>> As people need to "verify" their accounts to get access to SVN we can
>>> quite easily see who use their accounts and who don't.
>>> Then in 6months or so, kill off any unverified accounts...
>> Keep in mind that we use it as our general auth mechanism, so there are
>> people who have accounts who do not need svn access, but do need to be
>> able to log in to edit notes, for example.
> 
> Meaning you want to split the database into "needs svn" and "needs other stuff"?
> Guess we could disable svn access, but keep the account, for anyone
> who hasn't committed anything in couple of years.

I see no real benefit to deleting accounts.  What problem does it solve?

-Rasmus