The team responsible for managing accounts in the Debian project has slashed Norbert Preining's status for inappropriate behavior on the debian-private closed mailing list. In response, Norbert made the decision to retire from Debian development and move into the Arch Linux community. Norbert has been involved in Debian development since 2005 and has maintained about 150 packages, mostly related to KDE and LaTex.
Apparently, the reason for the curtailment of rights was a conflict with Martina Ferrari, who maintains 37 packages, including the net-tools package and components of the Prometheus monitoring system. The manner of communication of Norbert, who did not restrain himself in expressions, was perceived by Martina as sexism and a violation of the code of conduct in the community. Perhaps the decision was also influenced by past disagreements with Lars Wirzenius, one of the first maintainers of Debian GNU / Linux, related to Norbert's disagreement with the policy of imposing political correctness and criticism of Sarah Sharp's actions.
Norbert believes that the atmosphere in the project has become toxic, and the actions taken against him are a reaction to expressing his opinion and calling things by their proper names, not following the general line of political correctness. Norbert also drew attention to the double standards in the community - on the one hand, he is accused of bullying other project participants, and on the other hand, they unleash persecution against him, taking advantage of a privileged position in the management teams and not observing the community's own standards.
Source: opennet.ru