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On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 04:06:17PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> 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)

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