This is outrageous. Not only are you blatantly misrepresenting what various people are saying in the other thread and their intentions, you are now suggesting that repository owners do not in fact get to decide what goes in their repository and what does not, as if this has been the case all along. It is incredibly ironic how against the spirit of the CoC this all is.
On 9 June 2018 at 16:58, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Recent threads have demonstrated there seems to be some disconnect about > what is expected about maintainership and ownership of repositories. > > This has spilled over into talk about the code of conduct, IMHO > specifically because some people are trying to avoid being bound by it or > protesting its existence by looking for loopholes to avoid it. Which I > think is a shame, but I don't expect much constructive talk to come out of > that thread. > > I think we should though clarify that code repositories on gerrit and > diffusion are not owned by any one person, but are technical community > spaces held in common for the benefit of the Wikimedia movement. And yes, > that means sometimes your favorite project will get documentation commits > you personally didn't like. > > If this has been unclear, it should be made clear. If that means some > people host their self-maintained code outside of Wikimedia technical > spaces, then that is their decision and I respect it. > > If some kind of official kerfluffle is needed to decide this, let's talk > about how to do that. > > -- brion > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
