Russell Stuart <russell-deb...@stuart.id.au> writes: > On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 07:15 +0000, Philip Hands wrote: >> You've managed to spectacularly miss my point. >> >> If one insists on face-to-face meetings, there is a moderate chance that >> someone is going to notice that the same person is attempting to create >> a new persona in order to gain a reentry that we'd refuse if they >> presented themselves as the persona which was ejected. >> >> It's certainly not foolproof, but it's considerably better than simply >> allowing people to run multiple personae in parallel from their >> underground bunker. > > No, I think I understood your point. I just wasn't persuaded by it. If > someone is expelled by Debian then tries to "sneak back in" by > contributing for a year or two it takes to become a DD without any any > repetition of of whatever behaviour got them kicked out in the first > place, my guess is the project would be better off by letting them get > away with it. > > Putting another way - people can learn, and change. If we bet on it and > are wrong, then we yes will have to kick them out again in a few years. > But if the bet wins we get a contributor for decade or two. The trade > off seems worth it to me.
Especially because even if the bet lost, Debian would still have gotten a year or two of decent contributions out of it. Best, -Nikolaus -- GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87egpvqcce....@thinkpad.rath.org