Outsider here. Conflict around Norbert's mode of discourse and Ian's mode of responding to it has clearly been an ongoing problem for Debian for over five years: https://lwn.net/Articles/575390/ What tools for resolving this exist now that didn't exist then? If the answer is "nothing much", then, like, stop feeding the troll, mmmkay?
On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:43 AM Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > > Thomas Lange - 09.01.19, 18:17: > > > This reminded me about > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00025.html > > > > For easier understanding, this is the post from Daniel with subject: > > > > "€ 500 cash bounty for information / Debian privacy breaches" > > Thanks for looking it up. > > I do not consider either of those helpful or ethically sound. > > For me it has something about denouncing people aka "please tell us how > bad this person has been". > > I do not agree to collect such kind of information *after* a decision > has been made and I do not agree collecting such kind of information via > a public call, whether it is delivered together with a cash bounty or > not. > > I just maintain mainly one package for Debian, but my motivation to even > become just a Debian maintainer, an official one with maintainer rights, > right now is next to zero. Cause a project where people start to > publicly call out for evidence to denounce or expel people or keep them > expelled or do any other kind of harm to them is no project I feel > comfortable with. > > I think this kind of approach seriously harms the reputation of Debian > as a project. I am thankful that so far no news site I am ware of seems > to have picked this up and I hope it stays that way. > > Thanks, > -- > Martin > >
