Over time, FreeBSD committers may find other demands on their time, and decide that they wish to resign their commit bit. However, under some circumstances, a committer may become inactive over a long period of time without explicitly resigning their bit. Over the long term, these accounts can represent a security risk, as well as posing procedural questions regarding the degree to which contact information and access methods for the account are maintainable. For these reasons, the FreeBSD Core Team approved the following commit bit expiration policy, which was posted to the Developers mailing list - on February 22, 2002.
+ on February 22, 2002, and later on October 30, 2013.Committers that haven't made a commit in 18 months will be removed +
Committers that have not made a commit in 18 months may be removed from the access file from time to time. Committers that wish to get back their commit bits will have to reapply with the appropriate authority. Future refinements to this policy may be forthcoming.