The Toolforge trusty deprecation emails and a recent round of puppet failure emails that went out to a large percentage of developer accounts has heightened awareness of a long standing issue: we do not have a standard procedure or mechanism to purge rights from accounts held by people we can no longer contact via email. There are at least two different classes of accounts affected by this problem:
- Former Foundation and affiliate staff who used their work email as the contact address for their developer account
- Community members who have for whatever reason closed or abandoned the email account that they used as the contact address for their developer account
The idea of email address re-validation has been brought up before (T148792). I am not trying to fork or reopen that discussion. I am however interested in at least a one time cleanup and ideally leaving behind some processes and possibly scripts to assist in repeating the cleanup in the future. This could become a periodic cleanup task for the cloud-services-team similar to their current process of annual orphan Cloud VPS project cleanup.