On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 at 20:33, Josh Stone <jistone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tuesday (2024-12-10), the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee
(FESCo) met in a private meeting to discuss whether Fedora contributor
Peter Robinson should retain his provenpackager privileges. Over the
last year, multiple private tickets have been opened with FESCo
regarding Peter’s packaging behavior. In particular, on numerous
occasions Peter has pushed uncommunicated updates to packages he has no
prior relationship with, interfering with those packages’ maintenance
efforts. On at least a few occasions, this has resulted in other
maintainers being forced to react to these changes with no coordination
or notice.
I know that these sorts of matters are hard to deal with, but this entire thing comes across more as something from the mythological Star Chamber than something I would expect from Fedora.
Yes, Peter is hard to get along with at times, and yes he can be brusque, pushy, and grumpier than any mule or cow I have had the 'pleasure' to work with, and I have been at the tail end of his tongue multiple times over the years in Fedora. Yet in all those years, I have also known that his work has been in service of the parts of the project he has been given charge of, be it architecture or package sets. Of the many people I have seen problems with 'proven packager' he has been the least likely I would consider 'dropped from Proven Packager'.
In the future, I would hope that these matters are dealt with in a public setting or make sure that items are published before you announce judgement. There have been a lot of things in the past that tested my temper in Fedora, but this is the first thing that has truly broken my trust.
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