All I can say, as I have no understanding of the history of this situation, is that it's disappointing to see the folk at Debian can't resolve issues.
I recently move over to Debian from Ubuntu because they decided to can support for powerpc and I was hoping that the community distro would serve me better in the long run. A week ago I read about Dunc-Tank and now this and I find it all very sad. The community seems very divided at the moment (if only for a few) and it doesn't make good for the end-users like myself. I don't know both sides of the story but Sven I wonder why you even want to continue based on the few comments I read below and in the list. Where to from here with powerpc I wonder? On 1/2/07, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all fellow powerpc users. Shortly after christmas Fabio, the mediator in the dispute between Frans and me, made a very surprising post, in which he asked that i be banned from the debian mailing lists for 2 months. Given the technical problem in that, and the bad precedent it sets, i proposed a self-imposed no-post policy. The discussion was mostly held in private, with the single exception of : http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/01/msg00001.html which directly precedes this post. In the course of that discussion, many rejected strongly this decision, some believed that this issue was only due to my personal situation, others discussed how to address the more global debian problem of the flamewars and so on. Anthony Towns, our DPL, sole participation in this threads was to ask me repeteadly to abide by the decision, and Frans Pop did post a mail where he rejected a in-person meeting at FOSDEM at the end of february, and said he would not accept any kind of mediation. Both these posts showed that the mediation was probably doomed from the start, despite the good effort Fabio made, and maybe his blundering helped show that any effort from my part will be lost on Frans and the so called "leadership" of the d-i team. I asked for Frans Pop's mail to be made public, but we will see. So, where does this leave us ? Me, you and the debian-powerpc port ? Well, i will still try to help as best i can, and resort to private replies if i can help. I will take some time to reflect, and see if after there is still a hope of cooperation with the d-i team, but if this fail to materialize, i will fork d-i, and keep maintaining, with those who want to help me in this, a powerpc port of it, and possibly a fork of the whole or part of the debian archive, or at least the installation medias. We will see how things work out. So, don't be surprised if i don't post here, and if debian/etch is maybe not of the quality we could have hoped for on powerpc. If you have any comment, in particular concerning the debian-powerpc mailing list ban, please reply to the post above, so others will see it to, and maybe feel ashamed about their handling of this problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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