The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.
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On my position within the project

> The position is not open. I am serving out my present term, which ends
> on January 10 1998. At that time I might decide to run for another term.

From: Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> OK, thanks for telling us. There have been a lot of people wondering over
> the last week whether you were with us or not.

Sigh. Perhaps my apology mail got buried in other stuff, or perhaps I have
to make it clearer.

Every person has their limit. I got to the point where project leadership
was beyond my emotional and physical strength. I blew up. I sent an apology
to everyone who I thought got the original blow-up message. If you did not
get it, that was a mistake. I sent a message about the leadership change to
debian-user yesterday. I'll send another today.

To save myself from exhaustion and another blow-up, I have arranged a
change in project leadership such that much of my responsibility has
been delegated to two individuals who themselves now have their hands
_quite_ full with work. I had previously tried delegating my
responsibility to a board, but we were not able to get the board up to
speed in time. The board continues to work on its constitution and
hopefully eventually will become an effective tool for guiding the project.
That's going to take a few months more of patience from everyone.

Rather than start making drastic changes to the project, we should
appreciate how successful it has been so far, and work to preserve
the things that have made it successful. We are going to suffer growing
pains. That is inevitable. The ones we've suffered so far could have
been much worse.

And as far as my own job is concerned - my only crime is in introducing
radical ideas that developers disliked. It doesn't seem a crime to me
at all. Other than that, I think I've done a damn good job with Debian,
and I think I can still do a better job with it than anyone else around.

	Bruce
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