Joey was very active in Debian, but has retired from it in 2015. http://zgrimshell.github.io/posts/interviews-with-floss-deve...

I never understood clearly why Joey left the Debian Project. It was right after the SystemD Wars, but I didn't get the impression it was over the switch to systemd itself. Maybe, the level of acrimony displayed by people he used to, or would like to continue to, respect?

I enjoyed this:

> My passion is making Free Software because it seems to be the software that lasts, the software that turns out to matter in the end.