Am Mittwoch 14 März 2007 19:18 schrieb Mauricio Lima Pilla: > We don't need to bother hunting all the contributions in all open-source > projects to avoid them, as it would be much of a PITA. We can be selective > and not accept code directly submitted by such users, which would clearly > state that some developer is "persona non grata" in our project. I think > the idea is more to prevent somebody that can be technically sound to > poison the environment with their trolling. Dont you already "clearly state the some developer is "persona non grata" in out project" by taking the right to use the official communication channels away from that person?
Why shouldnt Dev, who is a friend of xyz although xyz has been banned from all official ways to submit code to the project, read one of xyz's patches, like them, submit them to bugzilla or whatever, get others to like them too, and have them added to the project? You would require every developer to agree on never ever doing this. And - i dont see why that argument of ciaran is bad (or at least not talked about any further): What about security patches? It just wouldnt make any sense. If someone, although banned from all communication channels, gets his code into gentoo, why not let it be - she/he had no chance to offend anyone, and Gentoo wouldnt be dependent upon this person, as the developer who sends this patch as his input will be the responsible person - and will be in trouble if he doesnt understand the code himself or something similarly naive... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
