On 7/31/25 11:09 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
But here we are talking about maintainers specifically discriminating people in very violent ways, during their role as a maintainer, so we probably all agree that this is way too dangerous, and that this is bad, and that it needs to be avoided.
Are you still talking about xlibre? I haven't seen any violence from the maintainers. The most violence I felt was towards the lead dev for force-pushing master every day, but thankfully he's stopped doing that. Most of what you wrote boils down to "what if" the maintainers make some bad decision or yell at a packager. It's still a new project, so there's a lot of uncertainty (which is why I haven't tried to upstream the package yet), but you're making a lot of assumptions.
And personally what matters to me is not necessary the outcome of Xlibre or even the specifics on how to deal with software that has extremely toxic maintainership but rather that we have each other's back and not engage in direct or indirect discrimination or attacks of each other when we are in the same boat.
I'm on board with this, we're all for free software and need to have the backs of other free software projects.
