The Code of Conduct committee has received several reports that a banned individual has been reaching out to a number of different people in the community to circumvent their ban. The banned person has been asking them to create code reviews, submit code, or post review comments on their behalf.
Banning an individual means that the individual has lost access to all project infrastructure and cannot attend LLVM events (in-person or virtual). As a policy, the code of conduct committee does not publish personal identifiable information, such as names, of banned individuals publicly.
We do realize that this means that most members of the community will not be aware of who may be banned. We may revisit this policy in the future.
In order to help members of our community be aware of this potential situation and taking the above policy into consideration, we are proposing the following addition to the LLVM Developers’ Policy
+When being asked by someone to add code (e.g. create a PR), or write review
+comments on their behalf, do suggest that they do it directly themselves or
+ask the reasons why they're not doing it themselves. There should be few
+legitimate reasons for them not doing so themselves.
We believe that this guideline is helpful in general. It also helps with not accidentally helping a banned person to circumvent their ban.
We welcome discussion and feedback on this, but ask that you join the discussion on the pull request at: PR69701. Please do not reply to this announcement in order to keep traffic low on the Announcements category.
Thank you,
The code of conduct committee.