Dear Gavin. Gavin Howard - 04.02.19, 17:28: > I am not a contributor, so take what I say with a grain of salt. > > I was planning on becoming a contributor to Debian recently and joined > the mailing list in preparation for doing so. And then I saw > everything that was happening. > > It made me nervous that people could be accused and removed without > any public process, opportunity to collect evidence, opportunity to > face their accuser, presumption of innocence, and other basic human > rights guaranteed, at least, by the US Constitution. (I don't know […] > For myself, I do not have great social skills and cannot read subtle, > between-the-lines, subtle messages, especially through the medium of > email. I could see a future where, if I joined Debian, I might make an > innocent mistake and not realize it until I was removed from the > project. That does not sound fun. > > So, no thank you. And best of luck to everyone.
I get how you feel. I maintain a package and well another one which I did not update in quite a while… but what I read here does not really add to my motivation. However… no one so far told me to stop maintaining those two packages and as I am neither a Debian Developer (DD) or a Debian Maintainer (DM) in the sense of the project guidelines, I feel I have nothing to loose here. So maybe… if you like to contribute something, for now… you can have someone else upload / sponsor it for you. Choosing that path no membership of any kind is involved and there is not really all that much too loose. I bet for now I will focus to continue maintaining that package with a good quality for as long as someone sponsors it for me. OTOH I postponed my idea to become at least a DM for now, due to what I read here. I told my sponsor and he understood. Thanks, -- Martin
