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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: 2) by Marand on Monday November 24 2014, @08:40AM
You looked at the code and looked at the person and dislike the game.
And some people skipped all that and just played the game and liked it:
https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/gpcslots2-in-a-different-direction-altogther/ [wordpress.com]
Wonder what' they're doing wrong?
(They even liked that it was in one convienent file.)
Nothing I said indicates whether I like or dislike the game, and it's curious that you'd take my comments on the code quality as such. That reaction, and the defensive nature of your reply, is the sort of response a content creator makes when attempting to deflect criticism of their creation.
It's also interesting that you had that link ready to use to defuse criticism. It seems to be relatively unknown, recent, and only has a couple non-author comments, both by Mikee (as proven by the commenter uploading gpcslots1), who mentioned Debian's refusal to distribute along with an interesting ESR blog post about censorship. (A blog post that I'd never seen but which helps confirm my original "crackpot" analysis of Mikee)
Combining that info, the reaction to my previous post, the anti-Debian and hateful comments, the axe-grinding submissions, and the rapid turnaround (anonymous inclusion request, rejection a day later, submission to Slashdot's firehose and SN within two days of that), it's starting to look like SN has attracted a wild MikeeUSA.
Well, Mikee, welcome to SN; if you're planning on staying, you should just make an account and be honest about it. I don't care if you're here, but I do hope the admins do a better job of vetting your submissions in the future.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @01:02PM
Oh, Marand. You're always babbling on about "conspiracies". LOL!