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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?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Monday November 24 2014, @03:55AM
Should any Debian package related to JavaScript be removed because of Eich's views toward marriage?
If use of said Javascript was actively generating money that was directly being used to discriminate against some of the users and developers of Debian , then the answer is 'yes'. Bear in mind that the issue with Eich wasn't anywhere near as simple as "he had a bumper sticker on his car". It was what he did, not what he 'thought'. Otherwise you have a good point.
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @07:25AM
Eich did nothing wrong.
You people, now the gatekeepers, need to be deposed.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday November 24 2014, @03:28PM
What he did years previously.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by metamonkey on Monday November 24 2014, @04:26PM
Depends on what his views are now. When I was teenager in the 90s I thought gay marriage was stupid and gays were gross. Then I grew up.
Okay 3, 2, 1, let's jam.