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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: Thomas Anderson <gentoofan23@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-council@l.g.o, gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Decision on recent developer retirements
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:31:21
Message-Id: b41005390808242331j42897906oe555d5405e9625be@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Decision on recent developer retirements by Thomas Anderson
1 On 8/24/08, Thomas Anderson <gentoofan23@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 07:39:35AM -0400, Thomas Anderson wrote:
3 >> Let me see if I understand the council's reasoning...
4 >>
5 >> If dev A gets retired by devrel for insufficient reasons(what those
6 >> reasons are are irrelevant to this discussion), and his behaviour does
7 >> not change after his retirement(as he never had wrong behaviour), then
8 >> dev A's appeal is rejected?
9 >>
10 >> Now, some may say that this is the reason Council reviewed the
11 >> evidence(did that really happen?). To prove my point, I'd like to ask
12 >> the council(and anyone else interested in devrel/council policy)
13 >> what reasons it found, looking through the evidence
14 >> provided, that any of the three developers were a security risk, I
15 >> certainly didn't see any.
16 >>
17 >> Needless to say, I'm very disappointed in this decision.
18 >>
19 >> Please keep discussion on gentoo-project.
20 >>
21 >>
22 >> Regards,
23 >> Thomas
24 >
25 > To Clear up confusion expressed by at least one person, my Mail wasn't just
26 > about
27 > myself being confused about the wording of the announcement email. It
28 > was about my frustration at the Council's decision because their
29 > supposed procedure for appeals didn't happen in this case. In
30 > Philantrop's case at least, his behaviour since the retirement has been
31 > almost perfect(a devrel member even asserted this), yet his appeal was
32 > rejected.
33 >
34
35 In my not so humble opinion I think they have spent enough time on
36 this matter already.
37
38 I imagine if they were to spend more you will still not be satisfied;
39 so my question to you is; what do you expect to change?
40
41 Do you expect the council to re-review everything and let him back in?
42 Do you expect the council to modify their processes and if so how? Do
43 you have ideas for them to improve?
44
45 -Alec