On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 05:10:12PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Matthew Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050321 17:05]: > > I'm not going to volunteer for them as I intend to leave Debian > > shortly after sarge releases. > > Why do you intend to leave Debian?
The Vancouver meeting summary upset me, not because of the proposals to drop architectures, but because it contained a reminder of the Social Contract changes. The project is moving to what I believe to be a ridiculously extremist position. I can't support the new Social Contract, and wouldn't sign up for it if I were going through NM right now. So the only honourable thing for me to do is resign at the point when it come into effect. It saddens me greatly that we've come to this situation. I've been proud to be a Debian Developer for the past 6 years. I'd like to say, as others have when resigning, that I will continue to run Debian on my machines, but I can't. Moving documentation to non-free makes Debian a less suitable distribution for me. I shall have to look around and see what other distributions suit my needs. I'd like to thank my friends in Debian who've made it worth working on. Those who've been involved in the PA-RISC port (which I first joined Debian to work on). The Apache team have done a fantastic job, and I'm proud of how that worked out. I didn't realise how emotionally attached I was until I came to write this mail. I really wish things could have worked out better. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
