[vlc-devel] [Asso] Update on the VLC project

[Ilkka Ollakka]

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 05:10:34PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> In order to avoid the same situation we've been into, I suggest a few
> things:
>  - the creation of a technical arbitration committee, to avoid the
>    YES/NO discussions, and whose decision will be final, like Debian or
>    Rockbox,

who would be part of this commitee? I'm not against it as I'm not
usually the one doing technical decisions relating vlc core code etc.

> About the current situation, here is what I suggest (from suggestions):
>  - Public excuse of behaviour of Rafaël on the mailing list,
>  - Private excuse for insults on the mean of communication involved,
>    by everyone who did those (last count was 5 people),
>  - 1 day ban of Rémi, Rafaël and the other people from IRC channel for
>    insults,
>  - 1 week removal of commit access for Rafaël,
>  - Warn Rafaël and other protagonists that any redo or teasing will create
>    an immediate stronger sanction,
>  - Vote at the next meeting to enforce any sanctions in a more permanent
>    way or take another set of sanction (including but not limited to the
>    debarment of individuals from the association or the project).

Those seem reasonable

> As Laurent suggested, complete removal of git rights should be kept only
> when commits are screwed up, which is not the case here.

I agree

-- 
Ilkka Ollakka
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