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posted by janrinok on Sunday November 23 2014, @09:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-love-for-trolls dept.

The Debian project has suffered from a long string of negative events recently, ranging from severe discontent over the inclusion of systemd, to talk of forking the project, to a grave bug affecting the important 'wine' package, to the resignation and reduced involvement of long time contributors.

The latest strife affecting Debian revolves around a request for a Debian package of the GPC-Slots 2 software. This request has been rejected with little more than an ad hominem attack against the software's author.

In response to the request, Stephen Gran wrote,

This is code by someone who routinely trolls Debian. I doubt we want any more poisonous upstreams in Debian, so I at least would prefer this never get packaged.

Jonathan Wiltshire proceeded to mark the request as 'wontfix', and closed it.

While Debian does strive to maintain high standards regarding the software it packages, the negative and personal nature of this rejection, without any apparent technical or licensing concerns, appears to conflict with Debian's own Code of Conduct. Such a personal attack could be seen as contradictory to the Code of Conduct's mandate that Debian participants "Be respectful", "Be collaborative", and most importantly, "Assume good faith".

Given its recent troubles as of late, many of them concerning the poor treatment of Debian developers and users alike, can Debian really afford to get embroiled in yet another negative incident?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @11:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @11:43PM (#119253)

    These submissions are very relevant. They always result in a lot of comments, too. Lots of people here use Debian (or a Debian-derived distro like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and so on), Debian has gone through a rough patch lately, and it is impacting a lot of us. Seeing how these submissions generate a lot of discussion, sometimes over 100 comments, I think they are what the community here wants.

    Even if it is the same person submitting news about Debian, what's wrong with that? The submissions always have very relevant links, often to content hosted on debian.org itself! I don't think that the messenger matters, since it's the message itself that's important.

    Instead of bitching and moaning about this, maybe you should submit some positive news about Debian. This may be hard to find, though, because nothing very positive has been coming out of Debian lately.