[This will be my last message on this thread. I go away on vacation tomorrow.]
>>>>> "Didier" == Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@debian.org> writes: Didier> The crux of my strong disagreement is here: as DPL, you just Didier> _framed_ the Montreal miniDebConf as a protest. This is a case where perception is powerful too. I perceived it as a protest. Several others, including people involved in DC20 see it that way. That in and of itself is a problem of perception. Even that problem of perception is sufficient to negatively impact the people doing the work. Even that problem of perception is worth solving. I really hope that supporting our people doing the work at DC20 is uncontroversial. You and others think my particular proposed solution sucks. Okay. I gave enough flexibility that another solution can be chosen. (I also gave enough flexibility that people can choose to do nothing. I think that people who do perceive a problem here will hear nothing a certain way, but I explicitly left that option.) Personally, I don't think simply a statement would be enough. I would hear actual effort spent to constructively make things better louder than any words. Whether that's in the form of isolating Debian as I proposed or taking some positive constructive steps to help out the people working on DC20 explicitly to say we support you, or something we haven't thought of yet. Even if I got it wrong, we could choose to spend all this energy supporting each other rather than fighting.