Dear Andrew: I appreciate that you are hurt and frustrated. We hear your hurt and frustration.
Discussions of the sort of broad decision making processes within the Debian Project you are talking about are off-topic for the debian-devel mailing lists. There are places where you could bring up the idea that Debian should use a different decision making process and should enfranchise more stakeholders. If you were respectful and in particular respected the diversity of opinions on whether this is a good idea, such a discussion would be welcome in the appropriate forum. Even within the current system, there are things you could do to increase the influence Devuan has in the Debian community. As an example, if you know of Devuan developers who have contributed to Debian and who are interested in finding common ground, please talk to them about whether it would make sense for them to also apply to be Debian developers. I think that the discussion of who are the appropriate stakeholders as it is taking place on debian-devel has run further than it needs to run. Thank you for your consideration, Sam Hartman Debian Project Leader
