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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Re: Who didn't respect privacy?

bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:

> More and more I wonder if it's possible, or even desirable, to keep 200
> people happy and moving in one direction in a project like ours. The
> coherence of the developer vote will tell me a lot about that.

The answer is a definite no if what you want is all the people going
in the same direction, and happy, with respect to all the issues.  But
the other half of the answer is that it doesn't matter.

You only want to make sure that the "vector sum" is going a direction
you're comfortable with, and that the density of the center of mass is
high enough.  That's really the nature of large projects as far as I
can tell, and even more so of volunteer ones.  Again, it is crucial to
not let the outliers more strongly affect the main than is their due.

Sheesh, that's enough mathematical analogy for me right now...
-- 
Rob