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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 25 2014, @03:05AM
Stating your opinion is bad behavior if that opinion is opposed to "social justice". Yep.
There is nothing wrong with the code. It does what it was designed to do without fault or error.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Tuesday November 25 2014, @03:24AM
Stating your opinion is bad behavior if that opinion is opposed to "social justice". Yep.
There is nothing wrong with the code. It does what it was designed to do without fault or error.
That isn't what I said at all, mikee, and you know it. Nothing I've said here has been about "social justice".
Also there's plenty wrong with the code, and no amount of defending it is going to make it less terrible. Maybe you should spend less time trying to convince us it's not shit and more time cleaning it up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 25 2014, @12:37PM
It does exactly what it was designed to do, nothing more, nothing less.
Try it out before knocking it.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 25 2014, @03:55PM
Except for the bigoted easter egg, sure. By definition an easter egg is "something more."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 26 2014, @09:04AM
Nope, that was in there from the start. Part of the design.
Free Software was written by hobbyists until a few years ago.
This piece of software has its beginning in the time before the corporate take-over of
the "lets make our own software for free in our own time" movement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 26 2014, @09:06AM
There is nothing bigoted about it.
Women should not have rights, Men should be able to marry girl children.
Read the Bible. If you disagree and you work to make the world a
"better place" where such things are not so, then well hopefully
Russia does what it's been threatening to do lately.
(You know, the resurgent Orthodox Russia)