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Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team
An anonymous reader writes Debian developer Tollef Fog Heen submitted his resignation to the Debian Systemd package maintainers team mailing list today (Sun. Nov. 16th, 2014). In his brief post, he praises the team, but claims that he cannot continue to contribute due to the "load of continued attacks...becoming just too much." Presumably, he is referring to the heated and, at times, even vitriolic criticism of Debian's adoption of Systemd as the default init system for its upcoming Jessie release from commenters inside and outside of the Debian community. Currently, it is not known if Tollef will cease contributing to Debian altogether. A message from his twitter feed indicates that he may blog about his departure in the near future.
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One down, four to go!
Remaining team:
Michael Bieble
Marco d'Itri
Michael Stapelberg
Sjoerd Simons
Tollef's smart to get out before Jessie is released. The looming spectre of broken systems that are going to haunt sysadmins everywhere when they update their Debian systems to Jessie is going to phenomenal. Who's gonna wanna stick around for that grief?
Sure, they'll all cry about "muh feels!" as the reason for leaving, but when you abandon a project (systemd packaging) this late in the schedule, everyone knows it going to be because you're trying to distance yourself from the inevitable shitstorm that going to happen.
Leaving the team before Jessie is released is just so fucking cowardly, I don't see how the guy can look at himself in the mirror. Weird that none of the other maintainers on the systemd team have even criticized him a little for increasing their ever demanding workload. Tollef is either trying to separate himself from the impending clusterfuck release, or his resignation is a political hack to put pressure on the Debian Technical Committee members to reverse their latest decision and force Ian's GR to be dropped, or maybe he's just a crybaby that didn't get what he wanted and is packing up his marbles and going home. Either way, he's a coward.