WTFCA expulsion…

I want to comment and explain my various posts in the “removal of svenl from the project” thread.

Expulsion is the most grave measure the project can take against a Developper. There is nothing beyond that, except death^[1]. So an expulsion process has to be investigated carefully before beeing cast, and has to start only if a clear abuse of Debian ressources^[2] has been done.

Given that fact, I just can't accept dilinger's post. He based his expulsion on social facts, that barely deserve to be noted, and do not explain where Sven abuse was, if there is any. Hence my quite rough reactions. I know that dilinger stated on IRC, that given the reactions of the ocaml team, he might reconsider the expulsion procedure. Honnestly, I'm still offended, for two reasons:

• if Sven really abuses the kernel team (or whatever team dilinger and Sven are both in), why has it not been taken care of INSIDE THAT TEAM (if it only deserves to be taken care of) ???
• if dilinger has so few knowledge of all Sven contribution in debian, how could he even dare sending his mail to debian-devel ???

We talk about extreme measure, that require extreme care when invoking them.

EXPULSION IS NOT A THING TO BE CONSIDERED LIGHTLY.

The current trend of the project wrt expulsion, vilifying developpers that do not behave fully straight, following the line of the Party makes me sick.

I reckon I was sceptical before, when I read people that said :

we are a technical community, social skills does not really matter.

I was sceptical because I was convinced it's still better if we can also be — maybe not nice to each other — at least comprehensive. Recent events make me belive that a community of technical persons cannot lead into anything else that a dictatorship, when it comes to social problems.