[mrmondo]

Oh believe me, we did try to contribute to Debian, in recent years the community has aged poorly and become toxic and hostile, where the Redhat / CentOS community has grown, is more helpful and we have found them to be more accepting of people offering their time than ever.

[ckastner]

Most people I have spoken to about this say exactly the opposite. In 2014, the project even ratified a Code of Conduct [0].

The only major contentious issue I can recall was the systemd-as-default-init discussion, but that was expected.

[0] https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct

[vbernat]

I genuinely don't know about what toxicity and hostility you are speaking of. Any pointer?