Re: [Ksummit-discuss] New CoC and Brendan Eich

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 10:00:11AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:52 AM Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > That wasn't the situation as proposed; the situation as proposed
> > involved a patch already written. (And the email address issue was
> 
> I agree it's not 100% the same.
> What do you do now, if someone sends a patch fixing a critical issue,
> but the patch is not up to your standards as a maintainer, and the
> submitter runs away, and never follows up?

Depends on if you care to do the work fixing up the patch yourself.
If you do, you can always rework it, and include a "based on a patch
from" note or similar in the commit message.

> > already discussed; an email address attached to a publically posted
> > patch is hardly private information.)
> 
> Which you cannot publish as the person was banned?
> Just stripping the banned person's name is also not a solution, as that would
> be willful copyright violation.

I don't see a reason why it would be necessary to strip someone's name
just because they're no longer welcome in discussions. Just don't CC
them.