Oh boy, I sure don't miss being subscribed to that list. I'm failing to see anything in your message that would let anyone provide an objective position on the actions your sharing.
What's the tl:dr? Is someone complaining that your given name offends them? or that you deliberately modified the name you use to cause harm? A person's name is their name. We don't tell other people they are wrong about their legal/given name nor any gender-affirming alternatives. We are meant to be inclusive. The only exception I can think of would be willful use of language to cause our express a desire for harm. For example, if you demanded the salutation Dominik, to prefix your given name. I'm not going to dig into the archive because basic human respect shouldn't be this difficult and it's why Debian is losing active contributors. That said, I will say that I found the email warning concerning. It engages debate and creates confusion where it should only be a simple restatement of facts...something that, of shared, would provide all an outside reader would need to draw a conclusion. On Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 08:03 G. Branden Robinson < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 ----- >
