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 the contributors guide.

Have I forgotten anything?

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