[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Candidates question: politics and Debian




On 3/10/24 21:06, Thomas Koch wrote:
A question to DPL candidates

It seems (to me?) that more and more areas of our lives become political and controversies on such topics more aggressive. Or people stop talking with each other.
Personally, I believe that there is politics in every aspect of our life. For instance, using or contributing to Debian itself is a political statement. I do not consider Debian to be "just" a technical project, it has its social and political aspects too.

How would you as a DPL try to lead a community that focuses on producing a great distribution without getting divided on controversial topics?

When there are hundreds of people with clear opinions discussing something, there will definitely be disagreements. What we should focus is how we can agree to disagree and collaborate amicably. We have a good Code of Conduct in place and I would be OK with constructive discussions as long as it does not go in the direction of violating the CoC.

About off-topic discussions, minimizing them would be great for everyone and anyone can divert these threads to appropriate lists.


Thomas Koch

(I hope it's not violating rules to pre-post a question before the campaign period?)

Attachment: OpenPGP_0xC7EA1BE1574DED5D.asc
Description: OpenPGP public key

Attachment: OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature


Reply to: