[gentoo-project] Unilaterally blocking people on Github without any proper procedures or authority

[gentoo-project] Unilaterally blocking people on Github without any proper procedures or authority

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

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This is really amazing and a new low for Gentoo all around. Many likely
have no knowledge. This side steps Comrel, and any other Gentoo
entities. There are no open bugs, there is no record or any mention....

Yesterday I noticed my history of past commits to Gentoo disappeared
from my Github account. I went to watch/star/fork Gentoo repos and I
could not. Having contacted Github over such. It turns out I was
blocked from Gentoo organization on Github.

That is entirely unacceptable, and without any reason. At best it is
over comments on this PR. Which I have mentioned several times on this
mailing list and -dev. The submitter was VERY upset to see it closed.
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1721#issuecomment-299942259

My comments there HARDLY justify any action be taken....

There is another open for over a year I just discussed with
fordfrog/Miroslav Šulc. Which he was requesting my help to test
address. Why it has not been committed to tree. I used to maintain
Tomcat. Other than me, Miroslav/fordfrog is the only other with such
experience to be able to test out such changes, etc.
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1358

I can only assume this was mgorny/Michał Górny. He recently showed up
in #gentoo-java IRC asking about those PRs. I responded to him, and he
ignored me, no surprise. Thus I am not to shocked at the blocking on
Github.

Though this goes entirely against any Gentoo policy on taking any such
action against a developer. Much less a member of the community. Even
after stuff in December. I was not blocked, banned, indefinitely from
any Gentoo resource. At it seems I am now from Github.

Even worse, a repo Miroslav Šulc/fordfrog created on a project I had
direct commit access to I am now blocked from. I know neither Miroslav
Šulc/fordfrog or  Benda XU/heroxbd would want me restricted from
that respository.
https://github.com/gentoo/java-ebuilder

This is really unacceptable and needs to be reversed immediately.
Anyone including myself that has been blocked from Gentoo github should
have that block removed.

Someone needs to start paying attention to the people who are managing
Gentoo on Github. They are clearly doing what ever they want. Not
following any Gentoo policies. Not filing any bugs, or any records of
their actions. This is not how organizations of any form should operate.

This could never happen within Gentoo. This is abuse of a 3rd party
resource a limited few have administrative control over, without
oversight.

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.

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Re: [gentoo-project] Unilaterally blocking people on Github without any proper procedures or authority

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 05/10/2017 04:49 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:

> Yesterday I noticed my history of past commits to Gentoo disappeared
> from my Github account. I went to watch/star/fork Gentoo repos and I
> could not. Having contacted Github over such. It turns out I was
> blocked from Gentoo organization on Github.
> 

I'd like a response from the github administrators on this action before
commenting any further, either in public or privately to comrel for the
basis of the decision with some context.

-- 
Kristian Fiskerstrand
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Re: [gentoo-project] Unilaterally blocking people on Github without any proper procedures or authority

[Raymond Jennings]

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As a completely uninvolved outside observer, I myself am still curious as
well.

My interest is as a proxied maintainer.

I have no interest in prying into privileged or confidential affairs
involving william, I do however remain curious about any standing policies
or codes of conduct that would apply in situations such as this.

As far as I know, the only policy that applies would be github's terms of
service as well as gentoo's code of conduct.

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>
wrote:

> On 05/10/2017 04:49 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
>
> > Yesterday I noticed my history of past commits to Gentoo disappeared
> > from my Github account. I went to watch/star/fork Gentoo repos and I
> > could not. Having contacted Github over such. It turns out I was
> > blocked from Gentoo organization on Github.
> >
>
> I'd like a response from the github administrators on this action before
> commenting any further, either in public or privately to comrel for the
> basis of the decision with some context.
>
> --
> Kristian Fiskerstrand
> OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
> fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-project] Unilaterally blocking people on Github without any proper procedures or authority

[Matthias Maier]

On Sat, May 13, 2017, at 22:53 CDT, Raymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com> wrote:

> As a completely uninvolved outside observer, I myself am still curious as
> well.
>
> My interest is as a proxied maintainer.
>
> I have no interest in prying into privileged or confidential affairs
> involving william, I do however remain curious about any standing policies
> or codes of conduct that would apply in situations such as this.

There is no need to discuss anything of this on the mailing list.

> As far as I know, the only policy that applies would be github's terms of
> service as well as gentoo's code of conduct.

That's a good starting point.

Best,
Matthias

Re: [gentoo-project] Unilaterally blocking people on Github without any proper procedures or authority

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

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On Sun, 14 May 2017 00:15:08 -0500
Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 13, 2017, at 22:53 CDT, Raymond Jennings
> <shentino@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have no interest in prying into privileged or confidential affairs
> > involving william, I do however remain curious about any standing
> > policies or codes of conduct that would apply in situations such as
> > this.  
> 
> There is no need to discuss anything of this on the mailing list.

Nothing confidential I was blocked on Gentoo's Github. My only recent
activity regarding Gentoo was 2 comments on 1 PR, 1721. I am over it
and have nothing more to say on the matter.

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William L. Thomson Jr.

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