Re: Why are in-person meetings required for the debian keyring?

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

Russell Stuart <russell-debian@stuart.id.au> writes:
> On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 07:15 +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
>> You've managed to spectacularly miss my point.
>> 
>> If one insists on face-to-face meetings, there is a moderate chance that
>> someone is going to notice that the same person is attempting to create
>> a new persona in order to gain a reentry that we'd refuse if they
>> presented themselves as the persona which was ejected.
>> 
>> It's certainly not foolproof, but it's considerably better than simply
>> allowing people to run multiple personae in parallel from their
>> underground bunker.
>
> No, I think I understood your point.  I just wasn't persuaded by it.  If
> someone is expelled by Debian then tries to "sneak back in" by
> contributing for a year or two it takes to become a DD without any any
> repetition of of whatever behaviour got them kicked out in the first
> place, my guess is the project would be better off by letting them get
> away with it.
>
> Putting another way - people can learn, and change.  If we bet on it and
> are wrong, then we yes will have to kick them out again in a few years.
> But if the bet wins we get a contributor for decade or two.  The trade
> off seems worth it to me.

Especially because even if the bet lost, Debian would still have gotten
a year or two of decent contributions out of it.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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