Dear Andreas, I wish to officially report a grievance against the Community Team for its handling of my messages to Debian Project mailing lists over the past year, and I request a review of its actions with regard to me by an _independent_ reviewer or panel thereof, with an opportunity to present a defense and/or nominate an advocate to present one for me. I feel that the Community Team has acted toward me with hostility and a lack of collegiality unbecoming to delegates of the Debian Project Leader.
I have modified the following only to obscure the title of a thread to debian-private. The quotation Andrew offers appears to be an approximately correct (if incomplete) representation of my words, and I waive my privacy in the portions I authored of the debian-private message to which he refers. (That is, I cannot and do not waive privacy prvilege in portions of the message that I didn't write, such as quotations of other people who mailed -private.) Please advise how you will handle this request. I feel that all Debian Developers are entitled to due process and should receive it. Regards, Branden ----- Forwarded message from "Andrew M.A. Cater" <[email protected]> ----- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 23:10:25 +0000 From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <[email protected]> To: "G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Community Team warning [WAS Re: XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Hi Branden, This is a formal request to cease your current behaviour on Debian mailing lists. If your behaviour on Debian lists does not improve, the Community Team will suggest a permanent mailing list ban as a minimum course of action. You have previously been warned about inappropriate styles of communication on Debian lists and have served a temporary mailing list ban. Once that ban was lifted, you returned and continued in the same manner. "By the same reasoning, the Debian Project could prevail upon you to change or omit your given name from Debian-related communications. Per Wikipedia, "Domini[ck]" means "Lordly", "Belonging to God" or "of the Master". One interpretation is an inappropriately hierarchical status for our egalitarian organization; another is potentially offensive to those of our membership who do not practice a deistic religion." Debian is *not* an American college debating society nor particularly a forum for complicated philosophical turns of phrase. Having returned to debian-private, you are again abusing the norms of Debian lists, producing "wall of (unhelpful) text" emails and contributing to a toxic atmosphere. This is sorely testing the patience of readers of the lists. Your two messages in the latest thread are symptomatic of the problem - you did not change your approach or acknowledge your problematic response, even after Russ Allbery intervened. You are evidently content to be in continual breach of the mailing list code of conduct and the main Debian code of conduct. If you no longer wish to be constructive within Debian, it remains open to you to request emeritus status. For the avoidance of any doubt here: continuing in this way *will* result in your being referred to DAM with a view to removal from the project. Thank you for givng this your fullest consideration. Andrew Cater ([email protected]) For Debian Community Team ----- End forwarded message -----
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