Aw: Please create a Debian Human project
Hello,
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Mai 2015 um 03:51 Uhr
> Von: anonymousd@airmail.cc
> An: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Please create a Debian Human project
>
> I've been holding my self back from writing this for quite a while. This
> rant stems from my almost 2 years of frustration of trying to join the
> debian community and create a meaningful contribution to the project. I
> hope that the reader will understand that it is embarrassing to me to
> expose myself so much, so, for that reason, I'm writing this message
> anonymously.
>
> I have contributed to other projects, I have in fact been working with
> software development for a bit over 4 years. I have contributed to other
> OSS projects and I know that it is hard to get the attention of someone
> who is working on a software using his(her) free time. I'm used to harsh
> replies, rotting patches, thankless work and pure simple indifference.
> But nowhere I felt so abandoned as in the debian project.
>
> Contributing to debian is hard. Communication seems to be the toughest
> problem that most human beings seem to face trying to interact with the
> veterans. Bugs are left to rot for years, emails to other developers are
> often never replied, even requests to help, of any shape through either
> the mailing lists or the IRC channels can be completely ignored.
>
> Once you finally get the attention of a Debian Developer or a Debian
> Maintainer, more often than not, you are going to get a backslash. You
> either have not read the necessary guide, FAQ or policy and because of
> that the best you are going to get is the tersest retort for you to
> conform yourself to the Debian standards. I can count in one hand the
> number of times that I was lucky enough to get this far.
>
> All that make those sporadic emails calling for contributions look like
> some sadistic taunting, an attempt incite me to keep investing pointless
> work into a project that have no interest in what I do.
>
> And now that I'm starting to see contributions from the new developers
> from the Debian Women project I'm appalled with difference of treatment.
> Almost all their emails, questions and patches get educated and helpful
> replies. The difference is so vast that to me it feels like they are
> part of a completely different project. If I contributed with a female
> name would I get treated like that?
>
> Which brings me to the title of this email. I'm terribly jealous of the
> Debian Women newbies, but I do not want to have females receive the same
> kind of attitude that I did during my sad journey. What I want is that
> every other human being to receive the same kind of attention that my
> women counterparts seem to have.
there are times that one wants more contacts with the Debian folks, and
then there are times that one needs a break from too many of those, and then
again it all feels just right. It all depends on how much spare time one
has, what part of the tremendously diverse (technically and socially)
Debian community one interacts with, how Debian-dense the local environment
is, ...
There may be a point in that a(somewhat) male-dominated Debian world is
more friendly to female noobs. Unconsciously, possibly. I propose you
just give yourself a female alter ego and join Debian Woman to give it
a try. I sweetly remember the "age test" of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry
that every 12 year old passsed at the time. But there is no such gender-test
equivalence for Debian Woman. Join them.
Please report!
Steffi
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