Debian admins demote developer Norbert Preining for using wrong gender pronoun
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I have not much hope for Debian as a project anymore, lots of important people seem to be burnt out by crap like this and have decided it's not fun anymore. Also this was all started by Sage Sharp, in the end [2], and revolves around Codes of Conduct. Again. I have never seen an example for a Code Of Conduct working out to something positive in an Open Source project.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/01/msg00170.htm... [2] https://www.preining.info/blog/2018/09/sharp-did-it-again/
AFAICT, the headline is wrong. He's been asked multiple times (the Debian team was nice enough to have clear links about emails) to shape up, and he's not being teachable.
Yes, if they follow the rules which have been defined to deal with stuff like this. Which they didn't. They came to a private decision and just went ahead, revoking his privileges before informing anybody (including himself) about the allegations and the decision. The "evidence-gathering" is starting now, after the decision. Which makes a lot of people itchy, understandably.
> He's been asked multiple times (the Debian team was nice enough to have clear links about emails) to shape up, and he's not being teachable.
That seems to be the private stance of the anti-harrassment team, but none of the developers who have chimed in seem to understand why this has happened. At least I don't see anybody standing up and yelling "Good lord, finally!".