Joey Hess Resigns From Debian

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 8, 2014 @04:39AM from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-patience dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Long-time Debian developer Joey Hess has posted a resignation letter to the Debian mailing list. Hess was a big part of the development of the Debian installer, debhelper, Alien, and other systems. He says, "It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. ... If I have one regret from my 18 years in Debian, it's that when the Debian constitution was originally proposed, despite seeing it as dubious, I neglected to speak out against it. It's clear to me now that it's a toxic document, that has slowly but surely led Debian in very unhealthy directions."

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Re: DebianNoob by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-08 05:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

My interest is piqued on what Bennett Haselton, the frequent contributor, think about all of this. The politics of ice distribution at burning man has a lot of parallels to Debain politics