• Bug#940624: Errors in the translatable messages

    From Maarten@posteo.de@21:1/5 to elbrus@debian.org on Wed May 7 22:40:01 2025
    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:34:34 +0200 Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> wrote:
    Hi,

    The response from Justin never got a reply. Justin didn't agree with
    most of the remarks, hence I'm closing this bug.

    Paul



    Hello Paul,


    I object to your closing of my bug report. I object because the reasons
    you gave do not, and not at all, justify your closing.

    My bug report was sent on 17 September 2019. The very next day you wrote
    to debian-l10n-english@lists.debian.org:

    Dear debian-l10n-english members,

    Yesterday, I received the following bug report about the templates of dbconfig-common. I recall the templates have been reviewed on this list
    in the past, could you please comment on the remarks by Maarten?

    Within three hours, your e-mail was answered by Justin B. Rye. However,
    in the period from 3 March 2015 to 18 August 2019, Justin B. Rye and he
    alone, had been involved 29 times in reviewing the English templates of dbconfig-common. Therefore, Justin B. Rye was not independent.

    Justin B. Rye was like a butcher who examines the quality of his own
    meat after being publicly confronted with a complaint about his meat. Unsurprisingly, he claims publicly that there is nothing wrong with his
    meat. You must have been fully aware of this, Paul.

    Because the esteem of Justin B. Rye was fully at stake, his comments on
    my bug report are untrustworthy. Even if your e-mail had been answered
    by another member of debian-l10-english, the answer cannot be qualified
    as independent.

    When you wrote to debian-l10n-english on 18 September 2019, I received a
    copy of your e-mail by the Bug Tracking System. I was surprised to read
    that your templates had been reviewed in the past. I also read the
    response of Justin B. Rye. After I found out that he himself had
    reviewed the English templates in the past, I concluded that neither it
    would make any sense nor there was any need to respond.

    After I received your e-mail of 22 April 2025 by the Bug Tracking
    System, I have read through the response of Justin B. Rye once more. His response is very tendentious and seems dishonest. This must have led me
    to investigate whether he had been directly involved in the past.


    Sincerely,

    Maarten

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