Re: [gentoo-project] Trying to become a Gentoo Developer again spanning 8 years...

[Aaron Bauman]

On Thursday, October 13, 2016 6:30:20 AM JST, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> I forgot a few things with my original post. There is a public
> bug open from
> 2008 on the action. There was no bug open in 2015 when I was silenced on
> #comrel IRC channel, after being accused of spamming the
> channel. Nor any bug
> about my denial of return beyond the comment on the bug. Some
> things were done
> a bit better in 2008 than 2015, but neither should have ever occurred.
>
> Reading this will shed allot of light on the past
> devrel bug to moderate me on -nfp
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236479
>
> There is a personal back story here, as I had stayed a single
> night with Chris
> Gianelloni and Chrissy Fullham (before marriage). Back in 2007 when we all
> attended Linux world. Having met the prior year, 2006 at Linux World. Both
> also came to my mothers house in Northern California back in
> 2007. Where would
> stay when I was in Northern California.
>
> Chrissy was constantly sending me private messages in IRC about foundation
> matters. Most of which I rather address in public not private. Which is the
> harassing I referred to. She had allot of issues with the
> things I was doing
> on the foundation side. I mentioned several places she was a
> major factor for
> me resigning as a trustee. But of course Chrissy was part of devrel in 2008.
>
> Chrissy questioning the change in By Laws that said you cannot be on
> Foundation and Council was because Chris (her bf and later
> husband ) was both
> in the past, a Trustee and on Council. I did not create the provision over
> Chris, I never had issues. It was just for clean separation of
> powers and not
> neglecting duties from wearing to many hats.
> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/
> a3f9cc7d3d7d4be99202353a2950f0ce
>
> Several of the others involved at the time did live within the Bay Area of
> Chris and Chrissy and would gather for drinks weekly. I am not sure if that
> included Alec or not but he worked for Google and was local to
> them. There was
> some what of a "clique" then. But I had no issues with them as a whole but
> they did with me. All have moved on from Gentoo but the mess remains....
>
> A SINGLE user Alec Warner (antarus) not Chrissy complained to devrel.
> Which Chrissy (musikc) was a member of, and received the complaint...
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236479#c6
>
> I can't recall if Alec was a member but later he said he should
> have emailed
> me first.  Also when it spiraled out of control onto -core
> later, he expressed
> regret for starting the whole mess. But once you push the ball
> down the hill,
> it is hard to stop it rolling over things...
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236479#c16
>
> The only "official warning"  was in public by Chrissy... The
> person who was on
> the receiving end of my "unruly CoC violating behavior" . Which
> in of itself
> was hardly that bad.
>
> 100% of the issues were public on the -nfp list. Thus they requesting
> moderation... I was not out of control anywhere else, IRC, other mailing
> lists, etc or they would have requested moderation from that.
>
> You can see per comments on the bug I found out about the
> ban/moderation via
> the bug, monitoring bugzilla....
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236479#c17
>
> My problems have always been when I interact with members of the relations
> projects. I never have issues with developers or other projects. I do not
> think it is right for people in comrel to be part of the
> dispute with someone.
> It is not objective, they are bias...
>
> On Thursday, September 29, 2016 4:04:56 PM EDT William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
>> This has been a long time coming. I have purposely held back
>> such a post for
>> many years. I have not been on any Gentoo related mailing list since 2008.
>> Not to dredge up the past which has some what haunted me and plagued my
>> efforts to return on numerous occasions over many years.
>>
>> For a brief recap; ...
>
>> 1.
>> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/
> dc2f34046910b10e6ddcb8304410046b
>> 2.
>> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/
> abfb3ade0108d4452dde85bf491827b9
>> 3.
>> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/
> 7ef33e6807214587fdb825bebe590887
>> 4. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135927#c5
>
>

You sure do spend a lot of time justifying history for someone who "doesn't 
need Gentoo," but we need you, apparently?

File the damned appeal against Andreas' decision to not allow you through 
the rest of the developer recruitment process.  If not, go find something 
else to do with your time, but quit wasting ours with long back stories 
about social problems.  You are apparently not socially capable or have 
severe problems interacting with others.  That is up to you to decide.

As NP stated in a previous post this is not a dictatorship... so quit 
acting like it is.  The same things you complain about not getting done 
will when the right people come along so don't act like you are a gift to 
Gentoo. No one is. 

-Aaron