I've downloaded the mbox archive for 2010-12. Although my Launchpad username
appears in the archive, my e-mail doesn't -- as expected. Even if it did, the
less an e-mail is broadcast on the web, the better (spam-wise).
Unfortunately large areas of open-source projects (like Debian, Ubuntu) have
been taken over by jerks. Jerks who block change simply because they can impose
misery on others. Jerks who abuse "wontfix". Jerks who fork a debian package
from upstream and then abandon it. Jerks who reject perfectly sound arguments.
Jerks who refuse to accept bugs in the components they control and send users
elsewhere to complain.
I think the solution will have to come from outside. We need something like a
petition-type website to expose (and shame!) retrograde developers/maintainers
and allow users to vote them off Debian, Ubuntu, Wikipedia etc. These people
are
on an ego-trip, so unfortunately it won't be easy...
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