Quiet at Planet Debian
THIS is an observation first made in IRC yesterday. It's still applicable.
Whether for technical reasons or not, planet.debian.org has not had any updates since 5 days ago.
Is no news "good news"?
From IRC: "Planet Debian has been dead for FOUR DAYS now. It's like no Debian Developer wants to publish ANYTHING."
Here it is right now: (one day later)
Is it possible that the vicious attacks on a former volunteer destroyed morale?
This volunteer, an Irish-Australian software developer, is still under attack.
What signal does that send to other (existing) volunteers? What other distro has issued a press release (first in 4 months!) about volunteers, but only when the project leaders had something negative to say about them?
Debian has people (insiders) who undermine SSH (later today we might see banning of SSH in the EU) and the only ones to be punished are volunteers who talk about it?
Will leaders of Debian drive their own people to suicide and then wonder why women stay away? Is the project all about "community", except the community members (real people) who are not 100% dyed-in-the-wool "faithful" members?
One might argue that it's all just a coincidence, but looking at pertinent blogs in the blogroll (e.g. Dirk Eddelbuettel, who is relatively prolific) that just doesn't seem like a technical problem.
As a side note, it seems like the editor of LinuxToday only works twice a week now, albeit this twice-a-week-only thing seems like a recent development, maybe only a temporary issue (maybe someone is on holiday). Either way, the site used to be about 5 times more active.
About Debian, the project ought to know that attacking volunteers in press releases does not look good to anybody, except maybe GAFAM. █
