Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 1:32 PM Philip Hands wrote: > > I note that nobody in this discussion so far has tried to argue that > we'll somehow be poorer for being less exposed to his writings, but only > that some procedure might not have been followed properly. That is because both sides are

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Martin Steigerwald wrote on 23/03/2022 at 17:18:40+0100: > Adam Borowski - 23.03.22, 16:46:48 CET: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:37:27PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> > You're not the first one with the same reaction, so here's why. >> > >> > Norbert publicly lies, writting he's not packaging

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Christian Kastner wrote on 23/03/2022 at 23:17:04+0100: > On 2022-03-23 21:27, Philip Hands wrote: >> I note that nobody in this discussion so far has tried to argue that >> we'll somehow be poorer for being less exposed to his writings > > It's not fair to dismiss his frequent KDE and TeX repo

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Martina Ferrari wrote on 23/03/2022 at 19:01:02+0100: > On 22/03/2022 23:37, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >>> Can we delete him from planet? >> >> Meh. If you want to do so, be my guest, but I fear this would be seen a >> bit badly compared to the "gain" you expect from it. > > I saw this message

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-03-23 21:27, Philip Hands wrote: > I note that nobody in this discussion so far has tried to argue that > we'll somehow be poorer for being less exposed to his writings It's not fair to dismiss his frequent KDE and TeX reports like hat. > but only that some procedure might not have been

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Philip Hands
Adam Borowski writes: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: >> > Can we delete him from planet? >> >> Any DD can do that... oh wait that includes me... done! > > I went bold and reverted this removal; If you think Jonathan got it wrong, try persuading enough of the

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 16446 March 1977, Adam Borowski wrote: > Can we delete him from planet? Any DD can do that... oh wait that includes me... done! I went bold and reverted this removal; the detailed reason why and the Planet rules I believe Jonathan has breached are in the commit message. And you are wrong

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Martina Ferrari
On 22/03/2022 23:37, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> Can we delete him from planet? > > Meh. If you want to do so, be my guest, but I fear this would be seen a > bit badly compared to the "gain" you expect from it. I saw this message yesterday, and left me thinking how nobody seems too concerned

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Dominik George
> There's no link between Jonathan being the current DPL ("has abused his > powers") I did not say "his powers as DPL". -nik

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
On 2022-03-23 10 h 14, Dominik George wrote: > While I agree that Jonathan has abused his powers and should not have removed > anyone from planet on his own, your argumentation is toxic in itself. We had this discussion a while ago when something similar happened on Planet: every DD can remove a

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Ulrike Uhlig - 23.03.22, 17:02:14 CET: > On a sidenote, I would like to urge the people who did so in this > thread to stop using the word "toxic" to describe that someone is > being called out for bullying, abusive behavior, discriminatory, or > (passive-)agressive remarks. This is victim reversal

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Adam Borowski - 23.03.22, 16:46:48 CET: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:37:27PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > You're not the first one with the same reaction, so here's why. > > > > Norbert publicly lies, writting he's not packaging in Debian "thanks > > to the da-manager", why should we care? Qui

Re: Is Debian sending people away?

2022-03-23 Thread Diederik de Haas
On woensdag 23 maart 2022 14:05:57 CET Antonio Terceiro wrote: > ¹ of course correlation is not causation, I am not saying the perceived > growth is happening *because* of the CoC etc. Indeed. It could also be *in spite of*. There's an equal amount of evidence for that: zero. > > Mailing lists

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Ulrike Uhlig
Hello, On 23.03.22 15:44, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 02:51:10PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: Can we delete him from planet? Any DD can do that... oh wait that includes me... done! I went bold and reverted t

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
In the same way Martin Shkreli can claim the state of New York has stopped him from doing pharmaceutical research -- breaking the rules results in consequences. They were the results of your own actions. Blaming others is shirking responsibility. On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 11:51 AM Adam Borowski wro

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:37:27PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > You're not the first one with the same reaction, so here's why. > > Norbert publicly lies, writting he's not packaging in Debian "thanks to the > da-manager", why should we care? Quite the opposite, isn't it normal to > publicly deb

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Adam On 2022/03/23 15:51, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: Can we delete him from planet? Any DD can do that... oh wait that includes me... done! > I went bold and reverted this removal; the detailed reason why and the Planet rules I be

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
I was also very very surprised to hear we allow members removed because of their toxic behavior still allowed to use project resources to amplify the very things that got them removed in the first place. No idea why we wouldn't have removed the blog of anyone expelled from planet.d.o as part of th

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 3/23/22 09:35, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: Thomas Goirand wrote: Can we delete him from planet? Why does this need to be brought to -project? You're not the first one with the same reaction, so here's why. Norbert publicly lies, writting he's not packaging in Debian "thanks to the da-manage

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 02:51:10PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > > Can we delete him from planet? > > > > Any DD can do that... oh wait that includes me... done! > > I went bold and reverted this removal; the detailed reason why

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > ... and if there was any doubt I could possibly vote you above NOTA, here it > goes away.  Continuing harassment of Norbert is not appropriate. > > The toxic environment remaining here must stop. While I agree that Jonathan has abused his powers and should not have removed anyone from pl

Is Debian sending people away?

2022-03-23 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 11:40:41AM +0100, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: > Am 23.03.2022 um 09:03 schrieb Martin Steigerwald : > > >> So I leave it at stating my disagreement. I hope this much is still > >> allowed here. > [...] > > I consider large parts of Debian to be a toxic environment to me, where

Re: Is Debian sending people away?

2022-03-23 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:34:21AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > We have less people leaving than arriving, so at least based on this > dataset, Debian is _not_ shrinking. If you are just counting the number of DDs, which is not the same as actual activity, then it's relatively common knowledge

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > Can we delete him from planet? > > Any DD can do that... oh wait that includes me... done! I went bold and reverted this removal; the detailed reason why and the Planet rules I believe Jonathan has breached are in the commit mes

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:35:18AM +0100, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > I actually believe it would be quite problematic if any single DD were > allowed to take actions on another contributor based on their own > judgment. That does include the DPL. §5.1.4 isn't applicable here, > because there is some

Re: Is Debian sending people away?

2022-03-23 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:05:59AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > I scrapped the data from https://nm.debian.org/public/people/, removed > the rows with "(unknown)" in the "Since" column and the ones where > "Account Name" is "None chosen yet". The number of people joining the > project is not ac

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On 2022-03-23 4:25 a.m., Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2022/03/23 09:37, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: >> So, are we now at a point where we ban people just because of some >> silly remarks in their posts and dislikes from single other persons? > > No, but I don't want people to keep feeling dread and won

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > Can we delete him from planet? > > Any DD can do that... oh wait that includes me... done! ... and if there was any doubt I could possibly vote you above NOTA, here it goes away. Continuing harassment of Norbert is not appropri

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
Sorry, the first mail was accidently sent direct to Jonathan. my mistake. Am 23.03.2022 um 09:25 schrieb Jonathan Carter : > On 2022/03/23 09:37, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: >> So, are we now at a point where we ban people just because of some silly >> remarks in their posts and dislikes from singl

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Timo Röhling
* Jonathan Carter [2022-03-23 10:25]: On 2022/03/23 09:37, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: So, are we now at a point where we ban people just because of some silly remarks in their posts and dislikes from single other persons? No, but I don't want people to keep feeling dread and wonder what he's g

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
Am 23.03.2022 um 09:03 schrieb Martin Steigerwald : >> So I leave it at stating my disagreement. I hope this much is still >> allowed here. [...] > I consider large parts of Debian to be a toxic environment to me, where > I always have to fear being attacked for just expressing my point of > vie

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2022/03/23 09:37, Ingo Jürgensmann wrote: So, are we now at a point where we ban people just because of some silly remarks in their posts and dislikes from single other persons? No, but I don't want people to keep feeling dread and wonder what he's going to say every time he blogs, and he'

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald - 23.03.22, 08:54:12 CET: > Jonathan Carter - 23.03.22, 07:38:02 CET: > > On 2022/03/22 22:01, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > In his latest post, Norbert wrote: > […] > > > I agree that his posts aren't appropriate for planet (I didn't pay > > close attention but noticed at least o

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Can we delete him from planet? Why does this need to be brought to -project? There is a team responsible for managing planet.d.o. If you have issues with Norbert's posts, write to pla...@debian.org . Jonathan Carter wrote: > Any DD can do that... oh wait that includes me..

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
Am 23.03.2022 um 07:38 schrieb Jonathan Carter : > On 2022/03/22 22:01, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> In his latest post, Norbert wrote: >> "most of my activity around Debian has come to a complete halt (Send your >> thanks to da-mana...@debian.org!)" >> I find it not acceptable because it's written a

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Jonathan Carter - 23.03.22, 07:38:02 CET: > On 2022/03/22 22:01, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > In his latest post, Norbert wrote: […] > I agree that his posts aren't appropriate for planet (I didn't pay > close attention but noticed at least one post recently where he > blames politics for not being pa

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Thomas On 2022/03/22 22:01, Thomas Goirand wrote: In his latest post, Norbert wrote: "most of my activity around Debian has come to a complete halt (Send your thanks to da-mana...@debian.org!)" I find it not acceptable because it's written as if da-manager are the only persons responsibl

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 09:01:27PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > In his latest post, Norbert wrote: Please note that I am a total outsider, so take this for what it's worth. In my opinion it seems better to let it be. Granted, Norbert's behaviour comes across as resenful, which isn't ve