On Apr 16, 2008, at 17:17 , Andre Felipe Machado wrote:
Hello I am too sad to comment such public relations crash now.It is a hard real known problem that *must* be quickly solved for sure,into our mailing lists, but not sooo publicly. Please, please, please do not repeat this method [0] as it severely damages debian-publicity team efforts. Andre Felipe [0] http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-04-15-021-26-OP-DB
Hello,Debian, as a project and as a community, is very open. That means both good and bad things are being discussed, out in the open. I think it's counter-productive to ask people not to talk about negative issues publicly.
Now, I agree with you that the tone of the message is a bit too harsh - the question whether Debian is dying is too much of an exaggeration. But I would not go so far as to call it a disaster.
I think that the best thing we can to is do a good job on the debian- publicity mailing list, so we get more "good" press coverage to offset the (inevitable) bad coverage.
Cheers, -- Alex