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This is really amazing and a new low for Gentoo all around. Many likely |
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have no knowledge. This side steps Comrel, and any other Gentoo |
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entities. There are no open bugs, there is no record or any mention.... |
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Yesterday I noticed my history of past commits to Gentoo disappeared |
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from my Github account. I went to watch/star/fork Gentoo repos and I |
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could not. Having contacted Github over such. It turns out I was |
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blocked from Gentoo organization on Github. |
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That is entirely unacceptable, and without any reason. At best it is |
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over comments on this PR. Which I have mentioned several times on this |
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mailing list and -dev. The submitter was VERY upset to see it closed. |
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https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1721#issuecomment-299942259 |
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My comments there HARDLY justify any action be taken.... |
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There is another open for over a year I just discussed with |
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fordfrog/Miroslav Šulc. Which he was requesting my help to test |
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address. Why it has not been committed to tree. I used to maintain |
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Tomcat. Other than me, Miroslav/fordfrog is the only other with such |
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experience to be able to test out such changes, etc. |
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https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1358 |
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I can only assume this was mgorny/Michał Górny. He recently showed up |
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in #gentoo-java IRC asking about those PRs. I responded to him, and he |
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ignored me, no surprise. Thus I am not to shocked at the blocking on |
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Github. |
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Though this goes entirely against any Gentoo policy on taking any such |
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action against a developer. Much less a member of the community. Even |
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after stuff in December. I was not blocked, banned, indefinitely from |
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any Gentoo resource. At it seems I am now from Github. |
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Even worse, a repo Miroslav Šulc/fordfrog created on a project I had |
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direct commit access to I am now blocked from. I know neither Miroslav |
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Šulc/fordfrog or Benda XU/heroxbd would want me restricted from |
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that respository. |
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https://github.com/gentoo/java-ebuilder |
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This is really unacceptable and needs to be reversed immediately. |
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Anyone including myself that has been blocked from Gentoo github should |
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have that block removed. |
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Someone needs to start paying attention to the people who are managing |
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Gentoo on Github. They are clearly doing what ever they want. Not |
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following any Gentoo policies. Not filing any bugs, or any records of |
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their actions. This is not how organizations of any form should operate. |
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This could never happen within Gentoo. This is abuse of a 3rd party |
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resource a limited few have administrative control over, without |
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oversight. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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