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On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 17:35 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> I don't think committers who violate policy will be changed by a ban. |
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> Certainly not a ban that is time-delimited (it means I get a 2 week gentoo |
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> vacation!) I'd consider alternatives like: |
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> - A period where the commits need review. |
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Who is going to do the reviewing? Do you really believe we have |
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manpower for that? Should QA be effectively punished by a lot of extra |
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work by developers who do bad stuff? |
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I would like to remind we had a developer like that once, and reviewing, |
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retraining, etc. did not help at all. He just wasted a lot of time from |
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a lot of people, and removal was the only solution that actually worked. |
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It's easy to talk when you invent work for others to do. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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