Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Dear Ondřej,

Ondřej Surý - 01.01.20, 09:39:35 CET:
> Andrew,
> 
> look at the subject, then look at what you wrote. If you can’t find
> enough kindness in the situation and you are angry then it might be
> better to not write anything at all.

If one outcome of the GR is to ask people to shut up… then… again as I 
wrote in the other mail, I think it does not serve Debian's highest 
good.

I agree with Andrew that at least some of the options in the GR were not 
about diversity or inclusion, but about exclusion and the opposite of 
diversity. I pointed it out *clearly* before hand, but that was all I 
could do.

And I feel that Andrew has every right on this Earth to state this in a 
public mailing list on Debian. He did not say anything offensive or 
anything intended to hurt anyone or otherwise violating the Code of 
Conduct.

So herewith I speak up for Andrew's right to voice his disappointment 
here as long as he does so within the Code of Conduct. "Being nice" is 
still something different than "shutting up". And asking someone to shut 
up in my point of view is not "being nice" to this person.

That said, from the topic of your mail, it is about being "nice to your 
fellow Debian colleagues"… however we all know that your mail is related 
to the outcome of the GR and you even wrote so.

Best,
-- 
Martin