Distribution quotes of the week

In summary, if we want to look for more consensus-seeking in our decisionmaking, and better negotiation, we should strengthen and encourage the TC. We should not undermine it, and not criticise the TC for acting vigorously. Being a little humbler, when we don our respective maintainer hats, would be a good thing.

I am worried that the rhetoric of mediation and consensus leaves little room for justice (by which I mean the remedy of power inequalities). We should be challenging the actually existing power relations. That is what the TC is for.

Anyway: People predicting doomsday scenarios for Debian do it because they are not familiar with how deep the project runs in us, how important it is socially, almost at a family level, to us that have been long involved in it. Debian is stronger than a technical or political discussion, no matter how harsh it is.