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Re: [PATCH] Revert Abortion joke removal.
- From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail dot com>
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Cc: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 16:51:51 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert Abortion joke removal.
- References: <xnlgcv1466.fsf@greed.delorie.com> <or4ljjuj12.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org>
Hi,
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> If you felt so strongly about it, why did you not respond there?
I feel the need to speak up, because you are encouraging a kind of
behavior that can deeply harm a project.
The standard of consensus used by this project is not "if you do not
speak up very very quickly, then your opinion does not matter".
This project relies on maintainers' ability to judge consensus, and
several of the maintainers have already judged it accurately, in my
opinion. On the other hand you are a GNU maintainer and have some
responsibilities associated with that, and I don't fault you for
carrying them out. Just don't pretend this is consensus, and don't
encourage people to quickly pile on to every patch they dislike for
fear that consensus will be misjudged.
Annoyed,
Jonathan