[Aptitude-devel] Stepping down as maintainer/developer

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 2 March 2012 21:29, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org> wrote:
>
> I'm sad to see you two seem not to get along. I'm even more sad that, as
> a result, the state of aptitude code base is not progressing as swiftly
> and as quickly as it could.
>
> None of us has magic wands that can make people who don't get along
> suddenly get along. But let me state the obvious here: moving away from
> contributing code is a net loss for everybody. If you two --- and
> everybody else who is willing to contribute code --- do not manage to
> get along and step back from contributing, you'll make aptitude suffer.
> And that is bad for Debian users, no matter who is right or who is
> wrong. Please think about what is at stake.
>
> People might have technical or procedural divergences that block
> contributions, but we need to find ways to fix them. If you've already
> tried discussing and that didn't work, we have other ways. For instance
> we can have someone mediating among the existing positions. I'll be
> happy to mediate on this, if you want me to.
>

Hello

I completely agree with your sentiments here.

Thank you for your offer to assist in the matter.  I'm happy to
work with yourself or anyone else as a mediator if this will
dissolve the tension.

Manuel, what do you think?


Regards