Dear Branden,
The Debian Code of Conduct[1] (and the mailing list Code of Conduct[2]) can
be boiled down to two sentences in simple English:
Assume good faith.
Treat others with respect, both within and outside Debian.
You seem to be complaining about the conduct of the Community Team with
almost every email. Each of the three members of the team has written
separately to you here in the threads on debian-devel or on the
debian-private mailing list. The content of the one (private) email written
directly to you by the Community Team has previously been quoted by you to
the lists.
The first few lines in your response to that initial mail from the Community
Team were that you would go quiet on the lists - I understood you to have meant
that in good faith. Instead, you have escalated the tone of your responses in
debian-private, here in debian-devel, and in your questions to prospective
DPLs on debian-vote.
You have taken it upon yourself to tell the Project and the team how
Community Team business should be run, not once but several times and at
great length. You have expressly treated this like a debate.
Robert's Rules of Order aren't appropriate here.
Assuming good faith is very much on point: you have chosen to use personal
attacks on style as veiled attacks on the character of the members of the
Community Team. You have chosen to mischaracterise replies written in good
faith as attacks on you. Stop this, please.
As a former DPL, and as someone who was very much around when the Code of
Conduct was introduced, the way the Community Team works should not be a
surprise to you. The common expectations of proper behaviour from every
Debian developer should not come as a shock nor should you feel that you
have been unduly singled out to be reminded.
This is an explicit reminder to you that the mailing list Code of Conduct [2]
applies in each Debian mailing list.
This is a formal warning to you that we believe your conduct on the Debian
mailing lists appears to be in breach of the main Debian Code of Conduct [1].
This warning (and the tone of any subsequent emails from you) may be shared
with the listmasters. They may consider suspending you from Debian lists in
due course if this conduct continues.
[1]: https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct
[2]: https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
For the Community Team,
Andrew Cater
(amaca...@debian.org)
