Update OpenWrt rules

[Rich Brown]

I am afraid you both are mis-understanding the active/inactive designation. It is true that virtually all OpenWrt contributors switch between "focused on OpenWrt" and "focused on other things". That does not change the intent of these rules.

The changes to these rules focus on VOTING... As a trusted "active member", we ask that you also use your judgement to weigh in on proposals that come forth from time to time.

So if you are focused on other things for such a long time that you cannot cast any votes, you will be moved to "inactive" status (after a notification or two). This keeps down the "active member count", so we can achieve a quorum of votes. If you wish to become an active member again, you need only request it.

Does solve your concern? Thanks.

PS Please respond only to the openwrt-adm list (cc'd) so that all these responses are recorded. Thanks


> On Sep 17, 2025, at 08:40, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 23:55 +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote
>> I hope people are not constantly switching between inactive and
>> activate state.
> 
> I suspect they do, to a certain extent. I certainly do.
> 
> As with any volunteer project, it goes in phases. Sometimes I'm very
> busy with the actual day job, sometimes I have a bit of slack to
> concentrate on 'other' projects, of which OpenWrt is one.
> 
> Even the VPN client I wrote and am primary maintainer of, gets
> neglected at times.
> 
> Where contributors are sporadic in their availability, I don't think we
> should *increase* the barriers to them becoming more active again.
>