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Longtime Debian contributor Tollef Fog Heen has announced his resignation from the Debian systemd maintainer team. His announcement states that "the load of the continued attacks is just becoming too much."
He has since written a detailed blog article surrounding the circumstances of his resignation. As he puts it,
I've been a DD for almost 14 years, I should be able to weather any storm, shouldn't I? It turns out that no, the mountain does get worn down by the rain. It's not a single hurtful comment here and there. There's a constant drum about this all being some sort of conspiracy and there are sometimes flares where people wish people involved in systemd would be run over by a bus or just accusations of incompetence.
This is yet another dramatic event affecting the Debian project in recent months. The adoption of systemd has been extremely controversial, even going so far as to result in calls for Debian to be forked. There have been other problems as of late, too, ranging from a serious bug breaking Wine just days before the Jessie freeze deadline, to the possibility of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD being dropped from Debian 8. And it was only just over a week ago that Joey Hess — another longtime Debian contributor — left the project, citing the "very unhealthy directions" that Debian has been led in lately.
Is the internal tension and strife caused by systemd about to tear the Debian project apart? Recent events such as the aforementioned have suggested that this is becoming more and more of a possibility. The repercussions of this drama will no doubt be felt wide and far, given Debian's own popularity, as well it forming the basis of other major Linux distros such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday November 17 2014, @04:47PM
I dont know, the very first sentence of his blog post makes it obvious this guy has mushy-head SJMW disease, which makes it seem very plausible this was nothing more than one of those undisciplined temper tauntrums that SJMWs are so prone to.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Monday November 17 2014, @05:29PM
SJMW? Care to expand that acrynom? (unless you actually mean Schweizerischer Jugendmusikwettbewerb)
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday November 17 2014, @06:01PM
social justice ______ warrior.
I can't guess the blank
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday November 17 2014, @06:51PM
They call themselves Social Justice Warriors, but I find the expanded term a much better fit, as they dont seem to accomplish or even attempt anything other than to garner media attention.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?