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[Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-10-12 17:07, Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:

> And I wonder: if a team membership request has not been approved in a
> year, say, doesn't that amount to a denial of the request? Shouldn't we
> treat it as one?

The user who is running into the problem followed up with a noteworthy 
comment:

«I have a backlog of unhandled requests which I'm currently reviewing.
Some of them are from early 2009. The policy in our team is to wait 3
months for feedback after sending a mail with guidelines. Expiring these
applications right now would not be very good for us.»

Two generally applicable notes there:

1. A year seems orders of magnitude more than you'd need, but for this 
team, the margin is much smaller.

2. Before you make a change that will affect masses of legacy data: 
Think!  How might it affect users who are counting on the old behaviour? 
 Ask around.


Jeroen