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Excerpts from amrith.kumar's message of 2018-06-02 15:06:27 -0400:
> Every project on the one-way-trip to inactivity starts with what some people
> will wishfully call a 'transient period' of reduced activity. Once the
> transient nature is no longer the case (either it becomes active or the
> transient becomes permanent) the normal process of eviction can begin. As
> the guy who came up with the maintenance-mode tag, so as to apply it to
> Trove, I believe that both the diversity tag and the maintenance mode tag
> have a good reason to exist, and should both be retained independent of each
> other.
> 
> The logic always was, and should remain, that diversity is a measure of wide
> multi-organizational support for a project; not measured in the total volume
> of commits but the fraction of commits. There was much discussion about the
> knobs in the diversity tag measurement when Flavio made the changes some
> years back. I'm sorry I didn't attend the session in Vancouver but I'll try
> and tune in to a TC office hours session and maybe get a rundown of what
> precipitated this decision to move away from the diversity tag.

We're talking about how to improve reporting on diversity, not stop
doing it.

Doug