On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 03:01:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> Please view the following email thread by Norbert Preining and others:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00032.html
>
> Best I can tell, because of one recent complaint and a review of his
> "tone" in 2012 to 2014, based mostly on his coc and systemd posts, he
> was demoted from Developer to Maintainer by the "Debian Account
> Managers". This led him to either partially, substantially or
> completely withdraw from the Debian project. A quick web search tells
> me his view of systemd is not positive.
>
> Would it make any sense to invite Norbert Preining to become part of
> the Devuan project?

I suggested that to him in a private email when that was current.

I don't remember how or if he replied, but it was not hostile...

ael