Bar the incorrect year, I fully agree with this email and do think there needs to be consequences for these actions.
I would ask the Kubuntu Council to consider these points and take some form of action. Clive On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Rik Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > I sadly have some concerns regarding Simon Quigley's actions and push > access to git and ppas. > > There have now been several 'incidents', including. > > (1) On 18th Oct 2017 after having been asked not to practice changes on > our git LP repos by Clive, Simon pushed all yakkety_archive branches to > master branches. > > (2) On 7th Nov 2017 Simon deliberately deleted ECM and other critical > build depends from the KCI ppa during the nightly build, breaking the > builds. He was not able to give a reasonable explanation for his actions. > > (3) On Jan 8/9th he prepared a "surprise" for us by staging without > consultation frameworks 5.30. > > This was despite again Clive asking Simon NOT to push anything. > > This was inevitably broken as the issues here: > > https://trello.com/c/J5w6GdXP/246-cleaning-up-the-road-for-frameworks-5-29 > > regarding frameworks 5.29 are still largely unresolved. > > Simon was aware of this, as several weeks previously when Simon was keen > to stage 5.29, this was pointed out to him. > > Also it is clear that as there were no appropriate commits regarding > package lists and dependencies to kubuntu automation, the workflow in > KA readme was ignored. > > While I like Simon immensely, this series of incidents in my mind calls > into question the appropriateness of Simon's ongoing git an ppa push > access. Especially after incident (2) where he reassured us that there > would be no such repeat and that he would act responsibly. > > Rik > >
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