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Debian Package Request for GPC-Slots 2 Rejected - Unfairly?

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 2) by cafebabe on Monday November 24 2014, @05:43AM

    by cafebabe (894) on Monday November 24 2014, @05:43AM (#119327) Journal

    It's not about his opinions, but about his behavior. On top of that this is badly written software, with very little use.

    Are we discussing systemd or #gamergate?

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  • (Score: 2) by jimshatt on Monday November 24 2014, @09:57AM

    by jimshatt (978) on Monday November 24 2014, @09:57AM (#119364) Journal
    "GPC-Slots 2", as the title says. I don't think it is wise to have a discussion about some 'incident' and then point to other things that are wrong too (red herrings?).

    • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday November 24 2014, @05:49PM

      by cafebabe (894) on Monday November 24 2014, @05:49PM (#119484) Journal

      I was being facetious but there seems to be no shortage of people who write low quality software, engage in dubious antics and have their work distributed to the exclusion of others. In this case, Debian rejected functional software in an unprofessional manner, contrary to the Debian Code Of Conduct, possibly due to an Easter Egg which propagates the author's beliefs. And these beliefs have already been disseminated on a Debian mailing list which appears to have been created for the purpose of positive discrimination.

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