Distribution quotes of the week

I'm working on the Fedora 23 release announcement right now, and this really hit home. Rather than going out, finding things our users are having trouble with, and coming back with "There! We fixed it for you!", we're working on "The widget set number has been incremented. There are fewer bugs in most of the things, while others have new bugs. Some of the parts have been moved to better places."

Let's note anyway that one can slip to the bottom without being vulgar or insulting. In any large project like Debian, one can find people who know how to be very oppressive, while keeping a very “correct” communication style. Debian is a broad project, and it is easy to avoid them, unless one tries make contributions that can be related to keywords like “committee”, “code”, “policy”, “delegation”, etc. In that case, it is better to retrieve the good old thick skin from the cupboard where we stored it after our code of conduct was adopted...