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From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Trying to become a Gentoo Developer again spanning 8 years...
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 15:03:44
Message-Id: 1475852619.11751.2@smtp.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Trying to become a Gentoo Developer again spanning 8 years... by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 > On 10/07/2016 04:54 PM, Nick Vinson wrote:
4 >> If the developer is really a problem,
5 >> then ComRel will be given repeated chances to deal with the
6 >> developer
7 >> and eventually (well hopefully not eventually) the "due process"
8 >> will be
9 >> done correctly and the developer will be removed.
10 >
11 > Not necessarily, bringing back might on its own open up for especially
12 > PR issues, but also potentially legal ones. So its not as simple as
13 > try-try-try-fail.
14
15 In this case it would seem that the details of the particular case
16 would matter.
17
18 Anything where bringing back a developer would cause *legal* issues
19 IMHO automatically qualifies it as a "special case".
20
21 ...but if that's so, then comrel had better have done a good job
22 documenting the case.
23
24 If there's an *urgent* reason to retire a developer in a hurry it
25 should be very easy and simple to document.
26
27 > --
28 > Kristian Fiskerstrand
29 > OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
30 > fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
31 >

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