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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: 1, Redundant) by Hairyfeet on Monday November 24 2014, @04:23PM
Sorry but no, don't try to lump in what corrupt tech reviewers have tried to label as "gamergate" [youtube.com] which just FYI was a snarky post by Alec Baldwin because his former boss Joss Whedon posted that anybody that points out obvious conflicts of interest like Zoe Quinn doxxing a pro female game design group while at the same time raising funds for a "female game jam" with the funds going into her personal account was "anti feminist", because they really aren't the same AT ALL.
Several supposedly independent "game journalists" got caught red handed with their hands in the cookie jar, not only pushing developers they had personal and financial relationships with but actually getting together in a secret private Google group to decide what got pushed, what got buried, and what agenda they should push. Then when this came out suddenly "its about feminism" with over a dozen sites coming out with the exact same article at the same time labeling gamers as "dead" and trying to make it all about Anita Sarkeesian, a known con artist [youtube.com] who has been caught in so many outright lies about the games she is supposedly "exposing" that she should by all rights have the same amount of credibility as Jack Thompson.
At the end of the day the reason the press latched onto the "gamergate" tag is because its exactly that...a tag. Something that they can use to discredit the legitimate criticism of their shady dealings because anybody can use that, all it takes is any random jackass (even a member of the gaming press themselves) typing " I hate (insert race or sex) #gamergate" and they can say "See? Its not about us, its about gamers hating (insert group)!" when in reality they were caught red handed [youtube.com] colluding and stuffing their pockets.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday November 24 2014, @04:49PM
sorry to reply to myself but we REALLY need the ability to do minor edits, its ADAM not Alec, too damned many Baldwins to keep up with LOL.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.