Planet Ergo

Dear Red Hat,

please do not abuse the privileges your employees have on Fedora Project's systems to enable two of your employees to make CVS commits to packages I own without any prior communication whatsoever.

Please consider the possibility that some of us voluntarily put significant amounts of work towards your upstream, and may experience the aforementioned as offensive and degrading.

It would have been just as effective to contact me prior to forcibly giving two of your employees co-maintainance, because frankly I'd feel honoured that Red Hat has a stake in one or the other package I own or co-maintain. It's the fact nobody asked me anything -or even told me- that offends me.

Despite the fact that the employees in question are relatively new to Fedora (their accounts have been registered within the past two months), I don't know where they come from nor what their respective history in Free Software is. For all I know, they may be very experienced and skilled packagers, and they may perfectly well know what stake I hold in my packages -and I primarily have a stake in the packages I own, or I wouldn't be the owner- but I have trouble trusting new users to commit to about 1200 packages all of a sudden.

Kind regards,

Yours sincerely,

Jeroen van Meeuwen