From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6AA7EC20 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2018 21:27:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [146.0.238.70]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C9200196 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2018 21:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 23:27:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Jonathan Corbet In-Reply-To: <20181004145631.5d1c3fb2@lwn.net> Message-ID: References: <6108593.JtmfA2IdsK@avalon> <20181004203956.GR32577@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20181004145631.5d1c3fb2@lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] New CoC and Brendan Eich List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 21:39:57 +0100 > Al Viro wrote: > > > * contributor Alice gets banned from contributing, for whatever reason > > * Alice finds a roothole and posts a technically valid fix > > * maintainer Bob sees the posting, verifies that the bug is real, that > > the fix is correct and that the source of that patch is banned. > > So, while remedies under the CoC are yet to be determined in any sort of > detail, I don't believe I have heard anybody talk about banning the > acceptance of patches from anybody. Speaking only for myself, I have a > hard time seeing that happening in the absence of other sorts of concerns > (the event where a would-be contributor started sending under a sock > puppet name because nobody would consider his work anymore comes to mind). > > What *is* common under CoCs in various projects is banning from specific > fora, such as this mailing list. But that is a different thing and > doesn't bring about the scenario described above. It does. Alice is banned from the mailing list, but still posts the roothole fix to LKML and Cc's the maintainer according to the rules. LKML drops the post, but the maintainer still gets it. Now what is he supposed to do? Ignore it, because he forgot to add Alice to his /dev/null filter? Thanks, tglx