Re: [rain1 at airmail dot cc] Delete abortion joke

[Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, 2018-05-05 at 00:02 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>   > > Please do not remove it.
> 
>   > Censorship from RMS?  Ironic.
> 
> It's just the opposite.  You are trying to censor the FSF's manual.
> 
> The real irony is that you feel entitled to do this -- to the point
> that if the FSF doesn't obey, you believe it is censoring you.

DJ didn't say that the FSF censors him.

>   > > GNU is not a purely technical project, so the fact that this is
>   > > not strictly and grimly technical is not a reason to remove this.
> 
>   > The fact that it's utterly tasteless and irrelevent, is.
> 
> That's an opinion.

Of course it is, but what about some empathy, perhaps?  I do care
whether a fellow, active developer feels unhappy because of personal
experiences, which are brought back up by a gratuitous attempt at a
joke.
We want to have a community-based decision process because that's what
makes us effective, and what invites contributors because it's an
inclusive environment.

On the other side, there's you invoking some leadership "rule" that has
no day-to-day importance for the work the glibc developer community
does, just to defend a joke that's pretty lame (IMO -- I know Alex has
praised it).

Do you think that choosing between those two sides is a hard decision to
make for people interested in the health of this project?

> I have a different opinion and I generally
> follow my opinions rather than others' opinions.

Good for you, and so will the developers that are doing the work to keep
glibc revelant for it's users, and do all they can to make this an
actual *community* project.