Debian Stable maintainer quit…

My friend k_f sent me a link containing the resignation of the debian stable maintainer. I can completely see where he’s coming from- the Debian crowd seems to have collected all of the antisocial jerks over the years. I sent him the following letter of support:

Hi there, I caught your post to the debian team’s mailing list from a friend (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00008.html ).

As a former debian user, I wanted to let you know I fully support you. There is a large segement of the debian crowd that has their heads firmly up their asses. It’s not often that someone from the inside calls them on it.

My experience with “debian snobbery” was with some kde ugliness in the migration to kde 3.x from kde 2.x. I found a problem with one of the dependencies on a package, and when I asked someone to verify it, I was bluntly told “debian doesn’t have dependency problems.” I was then berated by mwilson for 20 minutes before I said screw you all and downloaded a Gentoo ISO. I’ve been using Gentoo for almost 3 years now, and I gotta tell you it’s one of the best moves I’ve made.

The debian community as a whole is aloof, snobby, and generally unhelpful and rude. I’d suggest finding another distro- I’m sure ubuntu or mepis would gladly accept you- heck, even the gentoo guys would, although I suspect there’d be a bit of a learning curve for you.

You’re gonna get a lot of shit over the next few days, and I figured a positive email would help. Release your hate, your hubris, your ego, and snobbery, (however small they may be), and find a new distro to work with. The community as a whole needs you, even if those ungrateful asshats don’t realize it. Give them a good shake on the way out.

-Jesse (morgajel)