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On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 02:48 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> On Sun, 07 Jul 2019 23:00:01 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > My second agenda item is: removing posting restrictions from gentoo-dev |
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> > mailing list. |
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> > I was on the Council that made those changes, and from retrospective I |
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> > believe the decision to be a mistake. It was made to workaround |
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> > a problem with inefficiency of ComRel, and we should have focused |
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> > on fixing ComRel instead. I don't believe it serves its purpose well |
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> > and IMO it causes more problems than it solves. |
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> We had the problem of the lists becoming unusable. Since person |
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> involved actively avoided bans, the only working technical mean |
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> available was to whitelist the gentoo-dev mail list. Other |
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> technical means like targeted banning apparently have had failed. |
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For the record, this is oversimplfying. The main reason why the person |
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in question has bypassed the ban is because ComRel failed to deliver |
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a professional notice about the ban, and therefore provoked him to |
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publish it. Not saying it's justified or appropriate, saying it might |
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not have happened if we did things right. |
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I'm not aware of any case of deliberate repeated ban evasions that |
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required explicit action in the past. Are you? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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