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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 Hairyfeet on Monday November 24 2014, @04:01PM
Uhhhhh....sorry, flag on the field, 10 yard penalty for bullshit. I mean seriously nobody would EVAR think to type "women" into a box that is clearly labeled "input a number between 1 and 12" so at best one can consider that to be some sort of "Easter Egg" type thing where the ONLY people who would possibly ever see it would be the ones that already know its there, like the old Atari Adventure Easter Egg which I bet not a single one of you who were old enough to have played Adventure when you was a kid ever "accidently" tripped over!
At the end of the day either you are biased or you are not, really not any middle ground here. If they are deciding what programs to take based on politics then they are biased, blocking his software because you don't like his politics and not on the technical merits IS being biased and NO different than blocking someone's software because they support LGBT people having equal rights. Bias is bias, be it left or right, and you either are or you are not, really not any debate on this.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 1) by Bill Evans on Monday November 24 2014, @08:24PM
Clearly you've never raised a teenage boy.