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[dead] rurban
"The Debian Project sadly announces that it has lost a member of its community...."

I'm pretty sure they will not announce the mourning of having just lost one of their most important community contributors, Michael Stahlberg, who maintained manpages, codesearch and many packages because of frustration over their antiquated package maintainance workflow. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353010

rmwaite
I find this comment to be extremely cold. Technical and process disagreements happen all the time - one leaving because of their own free will is a regular course of life in any long-lived collaborative project. Someone dying is an entirely different thing and for one to equate the two is absurd bordering on cruel. Please take some time to pause and consider how this kind of inflammatory commentary is unhelpful and indeed harmful.
rurban
Wording. I would think about how to announce the death of a community member, not to be mistaken with other such instances.
breakingcups
I'm at a loss for words trying to understand what you are trying to convey with your message.