I would go further.. it seems like a necessary thing.
Putting the FESCO election eligibility question aside for the moment…
What if instead of trying to count fas groups we found a way to use the badges system and had something like a contributor badge with variants every year that was issued algorithmically based on discoverable activity that was used as criteria or by an individual request process to a group with delegated authority to issue the contributor badges for contributors that arent yet captured by the algorithm (using a human review process).
If we felt this approach worked a little better to keep up with active contributors, then FESCO may find its a better proxy for the intended eligibility.. and keep the workload on infra down to a minimum. Trying to clean up the stale fas groups every election cycle feels like the wrong way to get there, in that it puts a load on infra. yearly badges may be overall less work.