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Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?



On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 09:39:51AM +0900, Marc Dequènes (duck) wrote:
> Quack,
> 
> It seems the project is leaving the decision about Weboob onto me, so I'll
> try to address it.
> 
> The diversity statement tells me we should welcome others even if they are
> very different and with conflicting opinions but nothing beyond that. There
> is no policy part that I found helpful.
> I discarded heated reaction from the thread of discussion to isolate the
> most constructive remarks.
> 
> We've been able to draft guidelines about what we consider not acceptable at
> events and called this "code of conduct". This does not need to be universal
> but in our community we were able to agree on some criteria and I think this
> is making our world better. I don't think we should write an infinite list
> of rules but guidelines based on non-emotional objective points to consider.
> 
> There was part of the discussion about the intent of these upstream authors,
> but we're not mind reader and in the end the impact on people, and solving
> this if we can, is more important than judging people.
> 
> I've also excluded any consideration about the usefulness of this software.
> As long as one single DD is willing to maintain a software it is fine being
> in according to the policy. Also being very useful does not grant any
> special allowance to be nasty.
> 
> So I've considered these criteria:
> 
> 1) is it insulting?
> There was an insult targeting homosexuals, but a contributor proposed a fix
> and upstream accepted it without discussion.

but... https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/232

Mike


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