Re: Resignation

Pierre-Elliott Bécue <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:39:32 +0100

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Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote on 11/02/2026 at 10:46:18+0100:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 10:13:41PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>Quoting G. Branden Robinson (2026-02-10 21:35:59)
>>> I resign from the Debian Project, effective immediately.  I express no
>>> preference regarding my placement in emeritus status.  Do as you will.
>>
>>I am sad that you leave. Debian needs your criticism.
>
> I agree what Jonas said. In my opinion, it was not the contents of the
> messages you sent, it was the way and the choice of words that let
> where we are not. You could have changed that without throwing decades
> of Debian membership away, just by toning down yourself. I am sad to
> see that you chose the nuclear option.

I don't know if Mark suggests that you could have toned down yourself
just to avoid Community Team's mails or because he thinks that you
actually were too aggressive in your choices of words, but I fully agree
if it were the latter.

There is so many ways to share the same idea with someone without being
perceived as unneededly blunt or aggressive, and most of the time, you
seemed to willingly chose the unneeded way while, unsurprisingly, others
managed to share the same opinion in a way that was far more efficient
because the person receiving the opinion was not immediatly on the
defensive due to a questionable choice of words.

Since you were mentioning your own term, I can't resist to mention that,
a few years ago, I read this interview you gave when you eventually
succeeded at becoming a DPL:
https://www.linux.com/news/interview-branden-robinson-new-debian-project-leader-0/

It's sad to see yourself falling in some pitfalls your past self seemed
to see clearly more than twenty years ago.

-- 
PEB

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