Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> said:
> Can people be entirely banned from Gentoo?

It would be ideal, but not technically feasible.

> - What would such a ban include? Some ideas -- the person could not:
>   - Post to any gentoo mailing list;
>   - Post to gentoo bugzilla;
>   - Participate in #gentoo- IRC channels; 

All of these seem to be possible to an extent and would be valid if we
would like to limit the damage an individual does to the community.

>   - Contribute to gentoo (hence my corner case of a security fix) except 
>     perhaps through a proxy;

This would be difficult to control, and I don't think we should care in
this case.  If they are contributing through a proxy (say Linus), should
we reject their fix?

> - Why would we do it?

Because they are damaging the community and driving possible
contributors aways.

> - Under whose authority would it happen?

Devrel and/or userrel

> - Would it be reversible? What conditions would cause this?

This would be something I would like to hear opinions from userrel and
devrel on.  Do they think someone that we would want to ban permanently
would turn around enough to unban?

>   Since the banned person couldn't participate in Gentoo, we'd never 
>   know whether anything changed.

Refer to my comment above.

> - How would one appeal this? Would there be a chance to respond before
>   the ban?

If it got to the point of us considering a permanent ban, I don't think
there is any reason to even consider listening to an appeal at that
point.  With that being said, I would expect a permanent ban to be a
majority vote from devrel or userrel to put such a ban in place.

> - Would moderating the gentoo-dev mailing list obsolete this concept?

I don't think so.


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