Almost every FDO member is an employee of a corporation. Some are required to use their corporate email for upstream contributions. This is all very normal.
Wow. This looks really bad and ideologically driven behavior from FDO member. As usual, the likely scenario is RedHat are unaware and the person who executed the ban is simply abusing their position of power.
This, unfortunately, is an extremely common occurrence throughout many dev communities today. Sadly, companies still have not learned the kind of damage it does to them and how inappropriate this kind of abuse is. Still someone should let RedHat representatives know that the account rights are being misused.
Perhaps creating a list is in order, so we know who to never give any rights to manage the community or participate across multiple projects?
Have you read the email conversation in question? Surely it made you concerned at least a little in regards to the state of FDO and RedHat?
Thinly and not so thinly veiled threats to another person to police their own, not related to FDO in any way, shape or form, community because it does not adhere to your political ideology sounds like a severe abuse of power to me.
FDO is a community, and having people be treated with respect is crucial for maintaining this community. Letting people with a history of not respecting others be a part of that community is a problem, even if that behavior was displayed elsewhere.
It doesn't address the contents of this particular incident, rather it alludes to vague and nice-sounding moral principles thereby brushing off the whole specific issue. It is interesting, because by staying general the author gets to shrink from taking the responsibility of giving their actual opinion on the specific incident itself.
I don't remember since when "bowing down to threats" is adhering to CoC and "openly threatening someone over resolved conflicts under the suspicion of wrongthink" was "respectful behavior from community representatives".
Either way, it is always "we're just policing the bad people" until the bad person is you.
It's both hilarious and sad to see a bunch of 30-40 year old open source devs with mentalities comparable to Reddit moderators collectively bullying a 20(?) year old slightly immature dude.
I understand person is a board member of conduct group for FDO. But using the redhat email is definitely a 1990s power move.
If RH or IBM have no association, then this is likely grounds for punishment or sudden dismissal. Even if the RH guy is “right”.
Whole situation smells to me.