The Anti Harassment Team must be disbanded immediately and without recourse
as its name is offensive. It contains the word "ass." Unless of course it
is a reference to the intelligence of its members.
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 01:02:34 +0100 =?UTF-8?Q?Mart=c3=adn_Ferrari?= <
tin...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am writing on behalf of the Anti-Harassment team, as our input has
> been requested on this issue.
>
> Our understanding, after reading the mail threads and bug reports, is
> that the package in its current shape is against the Debian CoC ("be
> respectful") -- while it's not a "flagrant" violation,
>
> As Gregor Herrmann eloquently[1] put it, it's "not ok to use the boobs
> theme for a web scraper or other software unrelated to boobs [sic]
> themselves, where its only function is to make a small group of users
> giggle while objectifying, offending or boring the rest of the world."
>
> We appreciate uploading a new version without the insults (and thank
> Jonathan Dowland for his efforts[2][3] on this front). Please note that
> the insults and homophobic language *is* a flagrant violation of
> Debian's CoC and in our opinion, Debian should not ship new software
> including them.
>
> We believe the next release should not contain the package in question
> in its current state; our recommendation would be to either work with
> upstream on correcting these issues, forking and/or patching it, or just
> removing the package. There is still enough time to find a solution that
> respects our users and our community while keeping a useful piece of
> software in the archive. We would also encourage all parties to be
> respectful, and to observe the community needs for a healthy environment
> where such puerile humour taken at the expense of other people is not
> acceptable any more.
>
> If this dispute cannot be resolved amicably and timely, we believe the
> FTP-master team can -and should- unilaterally remove the package from
> the archive. We think that invoking the CTTE or calling a GR would
> unnecessarily cause more disruption and draw energy from the community.
>
>
> Martín Ferrari, on behalf of the Anti-Harassment team.
>
>
> [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/07/msg00428.html
> [2]: https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/228
> [3]: https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/issues/154
>
> --
> Martín Ferrari (Tincho)
>
