On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 08:28:08AM +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > Dear fellow maintainers, dear Lucas and Atheros, Hi Rolf, > I'd like to use this opportunity to relay my experiences with Lucas > Kanashiro (kanashiro@debian.org) and Athos Ribeiro > (athoscribeiro@gmail.com). TL;DR Going purely by my "interaction" or > rather the lack of it with them in the maintenance of gjots2, I have > some doubts they are fit to be DD or DM. > > Let me be clear, I am not calling for Lucas Kanashiro to be stripped of > DD privileges, but I would certainly like to raise my objections if > Athos ever attempted to become DM or DD. And I want to make sure that > Lucas' behaviour is documented and known in case of a repeat. > > For many years, I have maintained gjots2 and a number of other packages > in Debian, I am DM. Towards the end of March, totally out of the blue > Lucas and Atheros usurped maintenance of gjots2 from me without NMU, MIA > or any form of communication with me whatsoever. I am very active, both > in Debian and Ubuntu, anything but MIA. I have a working e-mail > account. About a week ago I asked them to reverse their changes which > until today hasn't happened so I went ahead and did it myself now, doing > their clean-up work. Once again, I would like to apologize for the lack of communication on my end. As I told you last week, before this message and before Lucas was back from the MiniDebConf in Curitiba, I was really willing to make things right. > They might want to argue that gjots2 was poorly maintained and hasn't > seen an upload to unstable for years. That still would not give them > reason to do what they did. In fact, I have always taken my > responsibilities seriously. There are good reasons there was no > upload. If they had bothered to check the upstream bug tracker or the > upstream branch at > https://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/gjots2.git they would > have surely realized I followed upstream closely. It was simply that I > was never satisfied with any of the upstream releases. I have been in > contact with upstream about this via bug tracker and e-mail (many of > which bounced, so progress has been slow). Even the latest upstream > release 3.0.2 does not work for me and thus I would not upload it to > unstable. Agreed, gjots2 is not in good shape but it's not because of a > lack of effort from the Debian Maintainer. I am sure you have been taking good care of the packages you maintain and will keep performing the good work. > Lucas and Atheros hijacked my package and then failed to clean up after > the mess they made despite being asked to do so. I can not change what had happened here but I hope we can put this behind us and move forward. @debian-devel: I am sorry my past actions have been taking so much time of everyone else, which could be put into something more productive for the community. regards, Athos Ribeiro
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