Dan, I think you have been invaluable to the Devuan efforts, and I hope you will keep contributing, as well as remain caretaker.
Ralph. Daniel Reurich wrote on 23/4/19 11:30 am: > Dear friends, fellow users and contributors to Devuan. > > I have come to a point of personal crisis with regards to my involvement > in Devuan. I have given a great deal of time to bringing Devuan to > where it is today. Of late have my efforts have been largely in the > background in maintaining the build system as well as advocacy, and > helping to maintain some packages, and working towards adding support > for the ppc64el architecture particularly for the new TalosII hardware. > > Recent events such as the fallout from the April 1 joke, which I > perceived it as a threat to Devuans image particularly with respect to > the appearance of security, and my poorly expression of those concerns > led me to be at odds with some of my fellow contributors and caretakers. > In particular I contributed to making another valued member, and a > fellow valuable contributor to Devuan, feel that he could no longer find > joy in contributing to Devuan any further resulting in his leaving our > community. I have apologised for this and continue to regret not having > found a better mechanism for expressing my concerns in a more > constructive way. > > The latest issue at hand and the one precipitating this personal crisis > is with respect to the failure of ci.devuan.org. In this matter I took > actions that although were done in good faith and with all due care, > resulted in exacerbating an already broken server by trying to reboot it > an action which failed and left the server broken and inaccessible. I > rebooted under the assumption that the person that hosts that server for > us would reasonably be available to attend to it if it in the unlikely > event it failed to boot. I was wrong and should have checked he was > available first. > > I am now at the point where given this latest assault on my character > and contributions by Jaromil, that I must honestly question whether I > continue to be useful to this community and Devuan as a distribution. > > It is now up to you to decide whether or not I should be holding such a > venerable positions as caretaker, infrastructure maintainer and > developer, and package maintainer of many Devuan packages remains > justifiable and acceptable to this community. > > My reason for bringing this to the attention of the broad community is > because Jaromil, one of my fellow caretakers has repeatedly taken > extreme exception to my actions and communications to the extent where > he has: > - called for my stepping down as caretaker at least 3 times. > - implied that I am incompetent in my administration of the devuan > infrastructure I have been co-maintaining for the last 3 or 4 years, in > particular the build system and until recently the packaging systems. > - claimed that I act with impunity and entirely disregard the need for > consultation on major decisions. > - threatened me in private emails to wage war against me and destroy my > reputation in this community and by implication the broader ICT, linux > and open source communities within which I operate and make my living. > and many other things. > > Therefore, I feel that unless the broad community of users and > developers of Devuan continue to have and express confidence in my > abilities to continue to be a caretaker and valued contributor to > Devuan, that I must indeed step down as caretaker and cease contributing > to this project as per Jaromils repeatedly expressed desires. > > I am extremely sad at having reached this point and recognize that this > communication will itself further erode confidence in Devuan as a > distribution. I do not want this, but I can no longer continue in the > face of such extreme opposition to my efforts to contribute to what I > believe is a fine and necessary project that I have come to rely on for > my business and am deeply invested in. > > Devuan belongs to the community and that community must always hold the > power to decide who it will entrust as it's leaders and contributors. > > Should you the community decide it is time for me to leave, I will do my > best to take the time to hand over properly my responsibilities and > share my deep knowledge to those chosen by you the community to replace > me in an orderly fashion and then fade quietly away. > > Warm regards, > Centurion_Dan. > > > _______________________________________________ > devuan-dev internal mailing list > devuan-...@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devuan-dev > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
