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I forgot a few things with my original post. There is a public bug open from |
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2008 on the action. There was no bug open in 2015 when I was silenced on |
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#comrel IRC channel, after being accused of spamming the channel. Nor any bug |
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about my denial of return beyond the comment on the bug. Some things were done |
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a bit better in 2008 than 2015, but neither should have ever occurred. |
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Reading this will shed allot of light on the past |
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devrel bug to moderate me on -nfp |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236479 |
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There is a personal back story here, as I had stayed a single night with Chris |
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Gianelloni and Chrissy Fullham (before marriage). Back in 2007 when we all |
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attended Linux world. Having met the prior year, 2006 at Linux World. Both |
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also came to my mothers house in Northern California back in 2007. Where would |
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stay when I was in Northern California. |
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Chrissy was constantly sending me private messages in IRC about foundation |
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matters. Most of which I rather address in public not private. Which is the |
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harassing I referred to. She had allot of issues with the things I was doing |
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on the foundation side. I mentioned several places she was a major factor for |
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me resigning as a trustee. But of course Chrissy was part of devrel in 2008. |
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Chrissy questioning the change in By Laws that said you cannot be on |
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Foundation and Council was because Chris (her bf and later husband ) was both |
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in the past, a Trustee and on Council. I did not create the provision over |
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Chris, I never had issues. It was just for clean separation of powers and not |
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neglecting duties from wearing to many hats. |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/ |
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a3f9cc7d3d7d4be99202353a2950f0ce |
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Several of the others involved at the time did live within the Bay Area of |
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Chris and Chrissy and would gather for drinks weekly. I am not sure if that |
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included Alec or not but he worked for Google and was local to them. There was |
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some what of a "clique" then. But I had no issues with them as a whole but |
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they did with me. All have moved on from Gentoo but the mess remains.... |
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A SINGLE user Alec Warner (antarus) not Chrissy complained to devrel. |
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Which Chrissy (musikc) was a member of, and received the complaint... |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236479#c6 |
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I can't recall if Alec was a member but later he said he should have emailed |
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me first. Also when it spiraled out of control onto -core later, he expressed |
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regret for starting the whole mess. But once you push the ball down the hill, |
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it is hard to stop it rolling over things... |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236479#c16 |
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The only "official warning" was in public by Chrissy... The person who was on |
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the receiving end of my "unruly CoC violating behavior" . Which in of itself |
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was hardly that bad. |
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100% of the issues were public on the -nfp list. Thus they requesting |
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moderation... I was not out of control anywhere else, IRC, other mailing |
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lists, etc or they would have requested moderation from that. |
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You can see per comments on the bug I found out about the ban/moderation via |
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the bug, monitoring bugzilla.... |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236479#c17 |
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My problems have always been when I interact with members of the relations |
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projects. I never have issues with developers or other projects. I do not |
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think it is right for people in comrel to be part of the dispute with someone. |
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It is not objective, they are bias... |
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On Thursday, September 29, 2016 4:04:56 PM EDT William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> This has been a long time coming. I have purposely held back such a post for |
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> many years. I have not been on any Gentoo related mailing list since 2008. |
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> Not to dredge up the past which has some what haunted me and plagued my |
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> efforts to return on numerous occasions over many years. |
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> For a brief recap; |
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> In 2008 days after stepping down as a Gentoo Foundation Trustee, due to |
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> harassment[1] 8/27/08. I made a post on the Gentoo -nfp mailing list and got |
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> a bit unruly[2] 9/2/08. Which lead to a single developer complaining to |
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> devrel at the time. I was banned from posting to the -nfp list, and I |
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> circumvented that ban with a single post[3] 9/2/08. Which about a week |
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> later lead devrel to decide to suspend me as a developer, prevent commits |
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> for a 1 week period of time[4]. I saw such as unproductive, penalization, |
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> and insulting given what had taken place with me stepping down as a Trustee |
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> and no respect for any efforts. I elected to resign against the advice of |
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> some saying remain. |
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> |
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> 1. |
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> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/ |
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dc2f34046910b10e6ddcb8304410046b |
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> 2. |
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> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/ |
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> 3. |
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> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/ |
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> 4. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135927#c5 |
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