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On 14/05/2017 16:29, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 14:56:03 +0200 |
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> From: David Seifert <soap@g.o> |
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> To: wlt-ml@××××××.com |
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> Cc: comrel@g.o, infra@g.o, github@g.o |
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> Subject: Your temporary 2 week suspension on interacting on the Gentoo |
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> Github page |
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> Dear William, |
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> Gentoo's Github team has unanimously decided to prevent you from |
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> posting and/or interacting with most projects hosted on Gentoo's Github |
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> page for 2 weeks. This was done in response to your comment |
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> https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1721#issuecomment-300178677 |
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> which is not the place to post comments and recount how Gentoo Java is |
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> struggling with its staffing needs at the moment or historically. The |
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> Github page and review functionality are for code-centric feedback and |
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> technical discussions, not about Gentoo-meta issues or the like. We |
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> want to keep the Github page a friendly environment for all non-Gentoo |
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> contributors. |
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I'd like to share some thoughts on this (hopefully not making things |
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even worse): |
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1. William, posts like above |
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(<https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1721#issuecomment-300178677>) |
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don't seem to help your case. GitHub could be one of the last few places |
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where Gentoo would be able to accept contributions from you as a |
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non-developer. |
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2. The ban is not permanent (yet?) - my understanding is it expires in |
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two weeks. This still gives you chance to positively contribute to |
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Gentoo. Based on the experience so far, I'd urge you to limit it to |
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uncontroversial technical matters, at least for some time. |
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3. I can understand the frustration of people involved. The PR did not |
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land in ~year, even though the ebuilds added were hard-masked. The risk |
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of landing it was minimal, and it could provide good basis for further |
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contributions. Let me know if I missed an important reason not to let it |
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land. Finding some way to un-block developments like these could be one |
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of more productive directions for this conversation. |
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Paweł |
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