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Re: [rain1 at airmail dot cc] Delete abortion joke
On 05/08/2018 12:45 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 7, 2018, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 05/07/2018 12:45 PM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>> I did get a (private) nod from our most senior maintainer, and no
>>> objections.
>
>> Let me be clear here. You had many objections. Including those from
>> me as a GNU project maintainer.
>
> I think I understand why you might think so, but I really did not.
>
> You wrote:
>
> Until we reach some kind of consensus the joke will not go back into
> the glibc manual according to the current community consensus rules.
>
> but we *did* reach consensus, under the present rules, about my proposal
> to restore the initial state, therefore the condition that limited your
> objection above was met.
No. You didn't. No weasel wording gets you out of this.
You can believe what you wish, but you've been told you did not follow the
rules for the community. Told by multiple people. It's really quite clear,
you just need to be transparent about what you're going to do, post a patch
about the reversal, and allow people to review it.
That's OK. You don't have to. You're a GNU package maintainer.
--
Cheers,
Carlos.