2009/2/11 David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com:
It might be reasonable for all active admins for whom there is not an AfD to be reconfirmed.
[RFA, yeah :-)]
I think the problem here is mission creep. RFA is just the most recent iteration of how we picked admins, after all, and it itself has evolved.
If we say now that we want to reconfirm all pre-RFA admins, then I can easily see (in a year's time) someone saying, well, RFA used to be a lot laxer, we should in principle reconfirm all those early ones because they might not pass now, etc etc etc. I believe this is what happened with the various content-grading review processes.
If you want to do this sort of thing, it might be simpler to say "reconfirm after X years" and apply it on a rolling basis to everyone still active.
(This then turns into a proposal that we've had before, which is infrequent but periodic reconfirmation)
Would it be useful at this point to have some idea of how other projects do it? I know some have a "normal" deadminning process, but I'm not sure how this works - do some have a request-based system, some have regular reconfirmation, what?