Re: Now what? On FTP Master division into Archive Ops and DFSG Team

[Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de>]

On 26.01.26 00:25, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> That state of affairs ultimately led to one team member carrying the vast
> majority of, the team's ongoing package review workload.
>
>
> Most recently [96.87%] of it to be exact.
>
> For years now.
>
> With no change in sight.
>
> Let that sink in for a minute.
>
>
> [96.87%]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/11/msg00222.html
>
> While this level of dedication to Debian volunteer work is truly admirable
> the imbalance in workload is not a hallmark of a well-functioning team and
> has resisted repeated attempts at improving the situation.
>
> Within the Debian community, there have long been complaints about the
> unpredictability of NEW processing time as well as nontransparent and rigid
> policy on both licensing and technical aspects.
>
> Along with the team's existing challenges this has created palpable
> frustration among Debian Developers, package Maintainers, and, reportedly,
> even more far-flung members of our community alike.
>
> While /effectively/ single-person teams are an unfortunate reality in some
> areas of Debian it's simply not a sustainable state of affairs for one of
> *the most foundational* areas of our project.

wow, from a team member dealing with one task to a single-person team 
within a few lines of text.

Why don't you mention the other tasks that other team members had been 
working on? Do you assume that only one person on the team was doing 
anything or does this not fit into the argument why a complete team had 
to be dumped?

This email is insulting and makes me really angry. Even the Community 
Team, who should protect the Debian community against such things, did 
support this content.
But one has to always assume good faith.

How did Debian end up like this?

  Thorsten