Hello guys,
I have never been a very active member of this community even though I'm very
passionate about free software. The main reason for this are time
restrictions. As I didn't (and still don't) have too much of time, I was very
happy that somebody (i.e. Ruben) filled the gap and maintained this wonderful
GNU/Linux distribution. At first sight, it seemed liked a perfect match:
Combining the power and variety of available packages of Ubuntu with the
spirit of the free software movement. I just loved it and enjoyed it for
almost three years. For this experience I would like to express my gratitude.
The team behind this distribution was just awesome!
But recently, things have changed: This distribution seems to be slowly dying
and this is the main reason why I'll be leaving as soon as I get the time to
do so. There is NO communication whatsoever with the community. We don't know
what's going on; we are not informed about the future plans of the
maintainers, there have been NO package updates for months and
security-critical bugs just remain open without anyone from the development
team commenting.
Don't get me wrong, guys: I know it's a lot of work to build such a
distribution and keep it running for such a long period of time but
unfortunately this is not worth much if you just keep ignoring your
community. Maybe some people will now say that I could always check out the
IRC channel and ask for information there. Maybe I would get an answer. To
those people I would reply (admittedly a bit polemical): Why should the
maintainers force the community to ask them for information about any single
issue when they just could provide some regular blog posts? AFAIK, Ruben is
being paid by the FSF to work full-time on Trisquel. It roughly takes 10
minutes to write a very short "Hey, we're still alive and working on topic X"
blog post once a week.
I'll be leaving for Debian as they seem to able to provide a libre
environment, even though they don't emphasize this aspect too much and even
promote proprietary software if necessary.
P.S: I don't want the message of this thread to sound too harsh and thus
excuse me if the criticism is too direct but IMHO it's much better to
directly talk about issues instead of just keeping them sub-surface for a
long time. Feel free to ignore this thread if you consider it to be a
baseless rant or to enlighten me if you reckon I'm not perceiving things
correctly. My hope is that this thread could maybe serve as a wake-up call to
the maintainers.
- [Trisquel-users] I'm leaving Trisquel gromobir
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