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Are you planning to unban him later?

I see why you'd want to suspend his account while you are fixing the hole. And I can see that it sucks that you got caught in the crossfire. And that reporting the bug quietly instead of announcing it to the whole world would cause much less headache.

OTOH after reading the rails bug report I think that homakov's only option was to make a high profile demonstration and basically shame the Rails devs into fixing it. I realize that it's incredibly shitty for you, but I'm afraid they'd just write it off if he kept it quiet.



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