Frans Pop & Debian harassment: death by a thousand emails
The revelation that Frans Pop resigned the night before Debian Day has shaken the way people view his decision to end his life. It is hard to eliminate the role of Debian in the death.
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Looking at the chart, we can see Ubuntu development commenced secretly in early 2004. Frans Pop joined the debian-private mailing list in June 2005.
I think anybody who gets 1,000 emails in a month will remember that. It may well have come to mind for Frans and other volunteers in August 2010. That is when Ubuntu developers simultaneously began the pushing for DEP-5 and the pushing for Constantly Usable Testing (CUT). That is when Frans decided enough was enough.