Iustin Pop <ius...@debian.org> writes:
> And again, I want to make sure it's clear what standard we hold
> ourselves to, here.
The standard that we hold *ourselves* to is considerably more than just
"don't be racist" for any definition of racist. The code of conduct we
passed via GR says:
1. Be respectful
In a project the size of Debian, inevitably there will be people with
whom you may disagree, or find it difficult to cooperate. Accept that,
but even so, remain respectful. Disagreement is no excuse for poor
behaviour or personal attacks, and a community in which people feel
threatened is not a healthy community.
I think that's the relevant point, and respectful is a much higher
standard than simply "not racist." It also, directly to your point,
applies to behavior towards anyone in the project.
But that's not directly relevant to the contents of *packages*, and
therefore not particularly useful for resolving the point of this thread.
We don't have a content policy for packages. Instead, we argue every
instance that comes up to death on project mailing lists, usually three or
four times in case anyone missed the discussion the previous time. That
way, everyone gets a chance to repeat the same thing they said in every
previous iteration of the discussion to ensure no one has forgotten where
they stand.
That is somewhat sarcastic, but the sarcasm is aimed at myself just as
much as anyone else. Please read this in a tone of wry humor at the
absurdity of the predictable and repetitive nature of every argument we
have had on this and related topics. A careful debian-devel observer could
have listed most of the people who would respond to the thread and written
a pretty good paraphrase of what they would say the moment they saw the
first few messages in the thread.
(This is *not* a criticism of Salvo; he was raising a concrete problem
with package maintenance and looking for guidance.)
--
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
