The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.
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Re: new maintainers

bruce@debian.novare.net wrote:
> 
> The part that seems to be intolerable to me is that I can not, in
> all honesty, tell someone that I know who the programs in Debian
> came from.
> That's where we will _lose_trust_ in comparison to the closed
> systems like Caldera and Red Hat and the _really_ closed systems
> like NT.
> It will take only one catastrophe to make it clear to the world
> that Linux can't be trusted, and I can not stop that catostrophe
> whatever I do.
> I can only show others that I have taken reasonable steps to avoid
> it for Debian.

Malicious people can hide their intents in a great number of ways.

Only tests, tests and tests (and rebuilds, checks with the upstreame
source and inspections of the diffs) can give us more security about
this.

Please, use these energy in creating a reliable testing system with a
large testing team. Advertize the number of tests and checks made for
each package; add a "twin" developer for each package to help reacting
to bugs.

When I uploaded my first package, I was sure that someone would have
tested it before putting it in the distribution. I was surprised when I
discovered that this wasn't true.


Fabrizio
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