On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 01:31:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > What will kill Debian faster than anything else is to have every idea for > changing something large, interesting, or possibly revolutionary in Debian > be met with anger, derision, and attacks. Hear, hear. I snipped out the rest of Russ's mail, but only for brevity: I fully agree with all of it. Extremely well said, Russ. I feel that there is fair bit of unresolved conflict sloshing around the project. This happens when people have a disagreement, and it's not handled properly on an emotional level: even though the disagreement is resolved on a technical level, and a decision is made and implemented, those who didn't agree with it don't get proper emotional closure, they feel put upon and rejected, that their concerns do not matter. It's like they are wounded, and the wound never gets to heal, and if there's any future disagreement, the old wound gets torn open again. That's not healthy. In the Battlestar Galactica remake, they have a fleet-wide boxing match, where anyone can challenge anyone regardless of rank, and they hit each other and this somehow gives emotional closure. I do not suggest this, since violence really isn't an answer, and even if it were, losing a boxing match as well as an argument isn't going to give closure. Resolving conflicts by having new conflicts isn't the solution. What could we do instead, to prevent and to handle these things? -- Schrödinger's backup hypothesis: the condition of any backup is undefined until a restore is attempted. -- andrewsh
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