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

[Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>]

On 05/03/2018 10:06 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> As a GNU Developer for the community I OK'd the patch.
>
> As a GNU Developer I answer to the GNU Project.
>
> I also apologize for not contacting you directly.
>
> This does not change my position on the joke and it's relation to
> abortion and censorship.
>
> A large group of developers, serious senior developers, at least 3
> project stewards (GNU Developers for the project), are indicating
> that they do not share your same view on the joke. Please consider
> their input and work with me to reach a consensus position.
>
> The underlying notions that the joke tries to express are important
> and I am more than willing to engage with you and Alex to write
> new text and put it back into the manual to meet our needs to
> express a viewpoint on censorship.
>
> Let me propose another the following patch for discussion. It is
> *not* a @cartouche, and will therefore be visible in all of our
> info and html files (which is better IMO).
>
> 2018-05-03  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos@systemhalted.org>
>
> 	* manual/intro.texi (Government Censorship): New node.

That still doesn't make it any more relevant to the GNU project, let 
alone glibc.  I agree that it may be relevant to the FSF, but does that 
mean that I can submit patches to add snippets about privacy invasions 
and/or human rights violations in India given that I am an active GNU 
contributor?

We probably agree on a lot of political and social issues (not that it 
is even necessary), but the manual is just not the forum for it.

Siddhesh