[sane-devel] SANE Developer Status Reconfirmation Request

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Roger,

Roger writes:

> Is this a real email, or an attempt to penetrate somebody's account?

This is a real email, as Allan has already tried to clarify in another
mail to the list[1].  Our intent was to reach all SANE developers[2] in
a convenient way first before contacting them directly.  Apologies to
all sane-devel mailing list subscribers who may have gotten confused.

 [1] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2016-October/034846.html
 [2] https://alioth.debian.org/project/memberlist.php?group_id=30186


>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 08:54:31PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>>Dear SANE developer,
>>
>>The SANE project thanks you for your contributions, big and small,
>>recent and in days gone by.
>>
>>Over the years, a long list of developers has joined the project.
>>During that period, several have said the project farewell, on the
>>list or in private communication.  Others have silently faded out,
>>pursuing other goals.
>>
>>Unfortunately, we have not really kept the list of developers up to
>>date.  The current list probably paints a rather inaccurate picture of
>>who is still involved with the project.  This mail tries to fix that.
>>
>>Please reply[*] to this mail with one of the following statements:
>>
>> 1. Yes, I still consider myself a SANE developer.
>> 2. No, I no longer consider myself a SANE developer.
>>
>>If you replied with the second statement, then we are sad to see you
>>go.  We will un-assign all bugs and feature requests assigned to you
>>and revoke your developer status.
>>
>># Alternatively, log in on the Alioth website and remove yourself from
>># the project via https://alioth.debian.org/my/
>>
>>If you don't reply in about two weeks, we will contact you again via
>>your Alioth address as well as any addresses we have on file for you.
>>A final reminder will be sent some two weeks after that.
>>
>>After the reminder, we will wait another two weeks before revoking
>>developer status for those who did not reply to any of these mails.
>>
>>We will gladly restore developer status should you have a change of
>>heart.  Just reply to the mail we sent.
>>
>> [*] The Reply-To: field has been set to the SANE project maintainers
>> and janitor (that's me).  Please keep it that way.  There is no need
>> to reply to the list.
>>
>>Hope this helps,
>>-- 
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