Speaking only for myself - let's keep drama compartmentalized and not bring Debian's into GSoC.
Don't take me wrong, I love Debian, but this doesn't help anybody. Carlos On Sat, Mar 19, 2022, 10:26 Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> wrote: > > Felix, Hideki, Jonathan, > > The message was sent to you all as candidates and you can each answer > for yourself > > Jonathan Carter's attempt to obstruct it in his capacity as outgoing > leader is an abuse of the role of DPL. It is even worse because he is a > candidate. You each have the right to answer for yourself. > > Jonathan is from South Africa. His response admits that he has brought > Apartheid tactics to Debian. Banning people is straight out of the > Apartheid playbook, that is fact: > > https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/list-people-banned-under-apartheid > > Regards, > > Daniel > > > On 19/03/2022 11:36, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > Daniel, you have been kicked out and consequently banned entirely from > > the project due to your behaviour and continued poor behaviour. You are > > not welcome or allowed in Debian, which includes our mailing lists, > > other communication channels or in-person events. And we will certainly > > not apologise to you for the harassment that you have caused to our > > project members and volunteers. > > > > For anyone else, our public statement remains at: > > > > https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20211117 > > > > -Jonathan > > > > On 2022/03/19 11:28, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> > >> Felix, Hideki, Jonathan > >> > >> You all nominated as candidates in the Debian election > >> > >> In August 2018 I publicly resigned from mentoring the Google Summer of > >> Code internships. My resignation email[1] was written diplomatically > >> and did not contain any hints about the intern relationships and other > >> problems in Debian. > >> > >> Over four years since my polite resignation, rogue volunteers associated > >> with Debian have been making attacks through emails and web sites that > >> are causing harm to reputations, families, careers of both volunteers > >> and interns, past and present. > >> > >> This culture of attacks was cultivated by a series of emails sent from > >> the leadership role in 2018 when Chris Lamb occupied that position. No > >> subsequent leader has shown any remorse or contrition for the way Lamb > >> misused this position. > >> > >> Other volunteers, for example, Dr Norbert Preining, have resigned[2] in > >> disgust at the same culture crisis in Debian. > >> > >> The recent legal verdict against Red Hat, Inc has explicitly stated that > >> overbearing and controlling tendencies of people in leadership roles > >> amounts to harassment[3]. > >> > >> As a leader, can you identify anything that is more important than > >> stopping, retracting and apologizing for these vendettas that were born > >> out of the leadership post you hope to occupy? > >> > >> Will you publicly denounce the culture of denouncing people? > >> > >> Does anybody else support an end to hostilities in Debian? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Daniel > >> > >> 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-outreach/2018/08/msg00108.html > >> 2. > >> > https://itwire.com/open-source/debian-developer-demoted,-quits-after-two-decades-with-project.html > >> > >> 3. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/16/red_hat_fedotra/ > > > > -- > Debian Developer > https://danielpocock.com >
