Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:02:47 -0100 "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> but it's a Gentoo decision to not accept work credited to XYZ. >> > > Does this extend to deleting all their previous contributions? Or > refusing to accept updates to their previous contributions? Does this > extend to ignoring security advisories, security patches and critical > bug fix patches published by that person? Does this extend to refusing > to use upstream software that contains code by that person? > > No, this cannot have any backward application, nor should it. All contributions made while respecting the guidelines, are valid contributions. Yes, it prevents any further contributions in the future - be it package updates, new features, bug corrections or security updates. No, this does not prevent Gentoo from using software packages where user XYZ contributes upstream. In my view, if Gentoo does decide to ban an user and has a good relationship with upstream, we should alert upstream and provide evidence of the behaviour that led to the user ban. However, if upstream = user XYZ and the product is just a Gentoo package, then it should also be blocked - that would be a clever way to avoid the ban. Any other doubt about my proposal?
-- Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo-forums / Userrel -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
