OK. Enough. Let's please end this.

Filipe, if you want to discuss something technical with me then please
email me privately. If you want to discuss something non-technical then
don't bother.

Thanks again to everyone else who offered kind words. Sorry for the noise.


On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 5:41 PM Marc Lavallée <[email protected]> wrote:

> I wonder who's the harasser... I'm leaving the list, because it's not a
> pleasant one.
>
> Marc
> Le 21-01-03 à 20 h 34, Filipe Coelho a écrit :
>
> Harassment is not allowed.
>
> And what was going on was on the border of it.
>
> I can send you some quotes if really needed, but that would be off-list.
> On 04/01/21 01:29, Marc Lavallée wrote:
>
> I just read the Debian Code of Conduct. There's nothing there that would
> forbid Non-Session-Manager to be included in Debian (maybe I don't
> understand it). Besides, the packager does not have the be the author or
> maintainer of the software.
>
> Marc
> Le 21-01-03 à 20 h 03, Filipe Coelho a écrit :
>
> Language used by Jonathan when talking to other developers in the github
> issue tracker and additionally in private conversations.
>
> There was a whole issue that got deleted by Jonathan after an ugly rant
> from him against everyone else in there.
> That was the one of the worst ones I have ever seen in my life. Glad that
> it is gone now. For the best.
>
>
> On 04/01/21 00:56, Marc Lavallée wrote:
>
> Filipe, can you be more specific about a Code of Conduct issue (that
> seemed to have excluded Non to be included in Debian)? What's "clear"? The
> use of WAF? Did the elusive "leader" wrote something?
>
> Marc
> Le 21-01-03 à 19 h 41, Filipe Coelho a écrit :
>
> Debian and Ubuntu were made aware of what was going on in the github
> tickets.
>
> I do not want to name any names, but someone from a leader role read some
> discussions and said it was a clear violation of their CoC and that it made
> a real problem for packaging.
>
> Hope that clears it.
>
>
> On 04/01/21 00:37, J. Liles wrote:
>
> Regarding Debian: I don't recall ever having dealt with a Debian packager.
> I believe Non is already in the distros of every packager who ever
> contacted me. Debian is not among them. So anyone who says that I somehow
> personally pissed off the Debian packagers is either lying or talking about
> some behind the scenes deal I wasn't party to. I don't know the first thing
> about what it really takes to get packaged in Debian, so if someone wants
> to offer some help and advice there, that would be great. I know a lot of
> users would prefer to just apt-get install than to have to build something
> from source.
>
> Grammoboy did contact the Debian packagers, I believe and asked me some
> questions to relay the answers to them, but I never dealt with them
> directly. This was around the time of the fork when Grammoboy was trying
> very hard to advocate for NSM support everywhere (which I appreciate).
>
> I don't really know what the problem is with Debian, but since there's so
> much misinformation going around, I have to assume it has something to do
> with that. The last thing Grammoboy relayed to me was that my use of WAF
> was the problem, but all of Drobilla's stuff is in Debian and it uses WAF
> so that seems like a pretext to me. Maybe someone who's an expert in Debian
> policy knows.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 4:05 PM Filipe Coelho <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 03/01/21 23:23, rosea.grammostola wrote:
>> > One can think, encouraging that someone who forked the project, sents
>> > a kind message to this list and I always want to be a proponent of
>> > restored relations, but still your message feels a bit misplaced here
>> > Filipe. There is no denying.
>>
>> I am sorry, that was not my intention.
>>
>> I had no plans to reply unless to correct false information or personal
>> attacks.
>> That was the case though.
>> (I typically dislike mailing lists.)
>>
>>
>> > The fact that NSM didn't hit Debian (still not in Debian afaik), had
>> > nothing to do with the developer, it was because of NTK and waf. If
>> > you guys wanted, it was possible to maintain a version of NSM without
>> > NTK (Fltk only). I was helping Nils with it, at that moment, but
>> > behind my and I guess our backs you guys where working on a fork. I
>> > just became aware of it, when there arrived a message on the LAA
>> > mailinglist, while having e-mail contact regularly the same week with
>> > Nils.
>>
>> Why would we contact you in specific?
>>
>> You always been a protector of Jonathan in every level, even defending
>> his verbal abuse, so we thought it would be useless to involve you.
>>
>> And it is not that correct that the only issue for Debian/Ubuntu is NTK.
>> Jonhathan's past behaviour violates Debian and Ubuntu CoC, so there is a
>> whole lot of friction from there too.
>>
>>
>> > You guys didn't just forked, after telling that you would be forking
>> > and discussing it. You did choose for a huge and hidden coup.
>> >
>> > Also the fact that you guys call it the community version, still gives
>> > me a very bad taste. It's plain newspeak to present a well thought out
>> > 'coup', behind the core community, as social.
>>
>> It is a community version by the real definition of the word, since now
>> there is a community behind it rather than a single person.
>>
>> It was ugly, but as I said in the other thread-chain, it was a last
>> resort.
>>
>>
>> > That developer who didn't want to implement NSM was Hermann from
>> > Guitarix. I discussed NSM support for Guitarix for more then 7(!)
>> > years with him. His argumentation was that NSM should be in Debian
>> > first. Fair enough, but to name that as a reason for a fork...
>>
>> That is the developer *you* know.
>>
>> Was that all of them?
>>
>>
>> > With having Argodejo as alternative GUI and a nsmd version which could
>> > be used in Debian, you guys had plenty space to hack around. But you
>> > did choose to fork also the FLTK original GUI.
>>
>> The FLTK "legacy" GUI is my "fault".
>>
>> I tried Argodejo, but personally do not like it that much. I am not its
>> target user, I feel.
>> So I plead to the group to keep the old GUI, that I would do the work
>> needed to make it run without NTK.
>> There were a few side-effects from going from NTK to FLTK, most of which
>> I submitted a patch for.
>>
>> It is actually a nice thing in my view, because now we can use NSM
>> without depending on NTK, making compilation and packaging easier.
>> Thus, hopefully getting more users to go into NSM.
>>
>>
>> > I can't conclude otherwise that your plan was to totally replace
>> > Non-Session-Manager with New-Session-Manager. Given the meaning of
>> > Non-Session-Manager for Linuxaudio and the contribution by it's
>> > developer, this still feels completely wrong. Especially the way you
>> > did it. So your message feels misplaced, sorry.
>> >
>> > And indeed, this is huge downside of the LAU community lately. These
>> > actions are cheered up by a small crowd who know each other well and
>> > is backing up each other, even while they don't use NSM themselves.
>> > Where the LAU community was a community of people with a scientific
>> > background and/ or creative non-mainstream thinking, it's now a group
>> > of witchhunters who call everyone with a different opinion a troll.
>>
>> LAU and LAD are dying off, but not related to the topic at hand, I think.
>>
>> We in these communities still hang out in IRC rooms and mailing lists.
>> This is arcane tech by new generations, who are used to stuff like Slack
>> and Discord.
>>
>> So the people that remain, I expect to be closer to one another, because
>> we are now smaller than we used to be.
>> Even during 2020 LAC live-stream, IRC was an afterthought
>>
>>
>> > Hail the community!
>> >
>> > But sorry, as we use to say in this part of the world: weeds do not
>> > die... Go male! :)
>> >
>> > Future? I don't see how these two projects can come together really.
>> > What the people of the fork could do, is to sent patches as much as
>> > possible to the original project maybe. And / or maybe get rid of the
>> > FLTK fork and focus on Argodejo only.  Anyway, that's not my
>> > expertise, nor did I create this situation, nor do I want to waste my
>> > time on it.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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