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Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> said: |
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> Can people be entirely banned from Gentoo? |
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It would be ideal, but not technically feasible. |
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> - What would such a ban include? Some ideas -- the person could not: |
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> - Post to any gentoo mailing list; |
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> - Post to gentoo bugzilla; |
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> - Participate in #gentoo- IRC channels; |
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All of these seem to be possible to an extent and would be valid if we |
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would like to limit the damage an individual does to the community. |
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> - Contribute to gentoo (hence my corner case of a security fix) except |
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> perhaps through a proxy; |
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This would be difficult to control, and I don't think we should care in |
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this case. If they are contributing through a proxy (say Linus), should |
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we reject their fix? |
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> - Why would we do it? |
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Because they are damaging the community and driving possible |
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contributors aways. |
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> - Under whose authority would it happen? |
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Devrel and/or userrel |
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> - Would it be reversible? What conditions would cause this? |
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This would be something I would like to hear opinions from userrel and |
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devrel on. Do they think someone that we would want to ban permanently |
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would turn around enough to unban? |
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> Since the banned person couldn't participate in Gentoo, we'd never |
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> know whether anything changed. |
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Refer to my comment above. |
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> - How would one appeal this? Would there be a chance to respond before |
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> the ban? |
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If it got to the point of us considering a permanent ban, I don't think |
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there is any reason to even consider listening to an appeal at that |
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point. With that being said, I would expect a permanent ban to be a |
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majority vote from devrel or userrel to put such a ban in place. |
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> - Would moderating the gentoo-dev mailing list obsolete this concept? |
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I don't think so. |
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Mark Loeser |
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email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org |
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email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com |
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web - http://www.halcy0n.com |