On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 10:00 AM Alex Monk <kren...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is outrageous. Not only are you blatantly misrepresenting what various > people are saying in the other thread and their intentions,
Perhaps. I've tried to go by the plain readings of position statements and I could have made a mistake? 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. Yes I'm definitely explicitly saying that. Same applies to pages on Wikipedia: you don't get to own them and veto others' clarifications. And sometimes an admit makes an edit stick that you don't like. > It is incredibly ironic how against the spirit of the CoC this all is. Can you clarify? -- brion > > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
