How not to ban a prolific git developer
On the 28th of July 2021 I received an email from Git’s Project Leadership Committee saying that my recent behavior on the mailing list was found to be in violation of the Code of Conduct. This was a complete surprise to me.
What was particularly surprising to me is the fact that I’m very familiar with the Code of Conduct, not only have I reported CoC violations in the past, but I’m the only person who has sent a patch to try to improve it, not only to the git mailing list, but the upstream project Contributor Covenant as well. It is because of this that I know the document doesn’t demand the examples of positive behavior in the section titled “Our Standards”, so the only objective reason why a project leader could argue that I violated the CoC would be if I had committed an action on the list of examples of unacceptable behavior:
If you don’t like drama then don’t read this post. Although there’s some technical discussion, it’s mostly an analysis of my alleged CoC violations and their context.
