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From: Thomas Anderson <gentoofan23@g.o>
To: gentoo-council@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Decision on recent developer retirements
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:38:51
Message-Id: 20080824115425.GA4692@spoc.mpa.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Decision on recent developer retirements by Thomas Anderson
1 On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 07:39:35AM -0400, Thomas Anderson wrote:
2 > Let me see if I understand the council's reasoning...
3 >
4 > If dev A gets retired by devrel for insufficient reasons(what those
5 > reasons are are irrelevant to this discussion), and his behaviour does
6 > not change after his retirement(as he never had wrong behaviour), then
7 > dev A's appeal is rejected?
8 >
9 > Now, some may say that this is the reason Council reviewed the
10 > evidence(did that really happen?). To prove my point, I'd like to ask
11 > the council(and anyone else interested in devrel/council policy)
12 > what reasons it found, looking through the evidence
13 > provided, that any of the three developers were a security risk, I
14 > certainly didn't see any.
15 >
16 > Needless to say, I'm very disappointed in this decision.
17 >
18 > Please keep discussion on gentoo-project.
19 >
20 >
21 > Regards,
22 > Thomas
23
24 To Clear up confusion expressed by at least one person, my Mail wasn't just about
25 myself being confused about the wording of the announcement email. It
26 was about my frustration at the Council's decision because their
27 supposed procedure for appeals didn't happen in this case. In
28 Philantrop's case at least, his behaviour since the retirement has been
29 almost perfect(a devrel member even asserted this), yet his appeal was
30 rejected.

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