Yes. But in my opinion, this is more than a problem of communication.
Many open source projects fail to retain their management cycle, or ecosystem even they have their Discord, or IRC to communicate. Many open source projects are having trouble retaining themselves and the core problem of them are 'they are just thriving in their cultural boundaries'. For example, in our country, South Korea, many open source projects are born and just die within a few years. And their core problem was 'only Korean developers can understand what is actually happening in that open source group'. I think that Debian volunteers communicate quite well, but the way how they communicate is immature. And, at least, they should let people know how they try hard to keep them alive. Debian is famous, and many developers in here think that it is 'a standard one for the normal office'. That means, no matter how Debian volunteers trying so hard, many people would perceive it as a 'untouchable' realm. Then it is important to re-think how to get people to continue on some positions. Debian still has translated documentations, even in a niche language. Like that, Debian should make more ways to 'encourage' developers to cooperate, in many languages. In 21th century, there's a great translator, so allowing people who don't speak English well, may not be a problem. Something like..yep, better than disappearing.I guess my comment is kinda messy, hm..Anyway, thanks for the reminder.
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