====== Checklist for Committers Who Pass Away ======

Here's a list of things to do when a committer passes away.  This likely mirrors when a committer leaves the project, except in a few cases.

  * Notify core@ of the committer's passing away.  If possible, provide a pointer to his or her obituary.
  * The core@ secretary should notify developers@ and accounts@ of the passing.  Should portmgr@ and doceng@ be notified separately?
  * Someone on core@ should clean up the PR database so no more mail is generated to this person.
  * Any ports for which this committer was the maintainer should be reset to ports@ or assigned to a new maintainer.
  * Update the calendar file to include the date and location of his or her death.  Remove the birth entry as well.
  * If this creates a vacancy in one of the project's many "hats," discuss how to move forward.
  * core@ should discuss if future releases should be dedicated to his or her memory, etc
  * Add an 'in memoriam' section to [[http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib-develinmemoriam.html|the contributors guide]].

Have I forgotten anything?

  * Disable dfilter-generated cvs commit messages if used (?)
  * Unsubscribe from mailing lists (?)