On 2025-11-13 09:53, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
Several individuals shared with me that they either don't agree with the
current procedures/philosophy indoctrinated, they feel intimidated to
reach out and fear retaliation and in form of delayed or more strict NEW
processing, and any combination of the above.
And I guess you as the project leader agree that the current DFSG and
Archive Operation teams engage in intimidation and retaliation
techniques (such as delayed and/or more strict NEW processing)?
This is quite a stretch (assume good faith).
Even if no one observed any form of retaliation, this is human to fear
that being critical to the FTP team may result in delays in NEW
processing for their packages, even if unlikely. All the more that the
FTP team was not really transparent with the delays (except possibly
when asked on IRC), while they were trying very hard to keep the statu quo.
It is not unlike a certain situation many years back with the Python
interpreter. People were afraid to confront one actor because of their
position in Debian (maintainer of an important set of packages).
It is courageous of Andreas to attempt fixing this, despite that.
