LWN subscriptions.. update.

I've been sitting on this for a while and It's just slipped my mind.

Okay so we started with 75 lwn subscriptions, right now we have 71 in
use... with no one waiting.

Now out of those 71 subscriptions... several haven't been used in 6+ months.

Here's what I want to do.

I want to do call out for new contributors interested in a
subscription. Filling subscriptions on a first come first serve
basis.

If there are more than 4 people interested I want to cull the current
subscribers with 6+ months of inactivity as of today's record and give
those subscriptions to the new people. Culling inactive subscribers
from most inactive forward.

I'd like to repeat this again in about 6 months.

Thoughts?

-jef

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On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:01:09PM -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>I've been sitting on this for a while and It's just slipped my mind.
>
>Okay so we started with 75 lwn subscriptions, right now we have 71 in
>use... with no one waiting.
>
>Now out of those 71 subscriptions... several haven't been used in 6+ months.
>
>Here's what I want to do.
>
>I want to do call out for new contributors interested in a
>subscription. Filling subscriptions on a first come first serve
>basis.
>
>If there are more than 4 people interested I want to cull the current
>subscribers with 6+ months of inactivity as of today's record and give
>those subscriptions to the new people. Culling inactive subscribers
>from most inactive forward.
>
>I'd like to repeat this again in about 6 months.
>
>Thoughts?

What are you using to gather "inactivity" metrics? I have a subscription
account that I very rarely sign into because LWN has an RSS feed that
typically gives me all the information I need. However, I do use the
subscriber account if something pops up in my RSS feed that sufficiently
interests me to actually start a web browswer and sign in to see the
subscriber only content.

Oh, and it's not a Fedora subscriber account. I'm just curious.

josh

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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Josh Boyer
> What are you using to gather "inactivity" metrics?

last login on lwn as it gives me.


> I have a subscription
> account that I very rarely sign into because LWN has an RSS feed that
> typically gives me all the information I need. However, I do use the
> subscriber account if something pops up in my RSS feed that sufficiently
> interests me to actually start a web browswer and sign in to see the
> subscriber only content.

How infrequent is that login? Is a 6 month window not long enough to
cover that sort of thing?


-jef

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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Josh Boyer
>> What are you using to gather "inactivity" metrics?
>
> last login on lwn as it gives me.
>
>
>> I have a subscription
>> account that I very rarely sign into because LWN has an RSS feed that
>> typically gives me all the information I need. However, I do use the
>> subscriber account if something pops up in my RSS feed that sufficiently
>> interests me to actually start a web browswer and sign in to see the
>> subscriber only content.
>
> How infrequent is that login? Is a 6 month window not long enough to
> cover that sort of thing?
>

I think the idea is a good one, as long we have some trust in that
LWN's statistics on logins etc are good? I mean I am logged into LWN
using my fedora account, but I am only asked to renew my login every
90 days or so (maybe?). Does it log the last time I used a verified
cookie against the site, or when it asks me to renew my lgon?



--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"

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On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

I think the idea is a good one, as long we have some trust in that
LWN's statistics on logins etc are good? I mean I am logged into LWN
using my fedora account, but I am only asked to renew my login every
90 days or so (maybe?). Does it log the last time I used a verified
cookie against the site, or when it asks me to renew my lgon?


If you have a cookie and you visit the site, it updates your "last
visited" time to reflect that.


--Max

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