Hi folks,
I am hereby resigning as secretary, effective immediately. I was
planning on leaving the office soon, anyway, but I had a rewrite of
Devotee underway, which would have made the software more useful for
different people (different checks --LDAP.gpg. and others), and allowed
Devotee to be packaged as essentially a perl library, with vote
protocols being perl scripts (debian-vote --config gr_lenny.cfg). But
that is no longer a compelling reason to stay on.
In the years I have spent in this role since Darren left us, I
have tried to conduct the votes as I saw the rquirements of the
constitution, and the limitations of the voting software. But this not
a view shared by very many people.
I concede that I have made mistakes with the current set of
votes. And the arguments being made now, after the vote was called and
started, are fairly compelling. But these arguments could have been
made when the vote page went up, when I was sending in the emails about
which option had how many seconds, or when the draft ballot was sent
in. There are, in my opinion, far more cogent arguments being offered
now, than there were in the discussion period, and had these being made
earlier, we would not have come to this pass.
But that is merely an excuse. The buck fir running votes stops
at the secretary, so I am ultimately responsible for the current state
of the vote. And I am begnning to see that the ballot was wrong.
Mistakes happen. Mistakes can be recovered from. What can not,
however, is relationships, and trust, and this works both ways. It has
been made clear to me that the project no longer trusts me, and many
consider that I have been the epitome of sleaze over the years,
manipulating votes for my own ends. That hurts. I have also read
planet. The amount of vitriol there makes it untenable for me to
participate in any efforts to recover from this mess.
Life is too short. This is way too much stress at a point in my
life where there is too much stress to deal with.
I am asking the DSA to remove me from the debvote group,
effective now.
As to the people who emailed me that they are putting together a
petition for the DAM to have me removed from the project, I hear you
too. I am going to spend the next few days evaluating how important the
project is to me, and whether I should save you the bother or an
expulsion process.
While I must say that the mistake for this ballot lies at my
door, I am very distressed at the amount of vitriol that saturates the
project communication channels now. Subjectively, this seems worse now
than the flame filled days of yore -- because, back then, despite the
apparent flames, people used to be amicable and friendly with the
people they occasionally had heated discussion with. That seems to have
passed, with real meanness being far more prevalent than before.
Any way. Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish.
manoj
--
Freedom from incrustation of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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