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Re: [PATCH] Revert Abortion joke removal.
On 05/08/2018 09:15 PM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 8, 2018, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 3:33 PM, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On May 8, 2018, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> May the lesson be learned ;-) I was surprised myself, but he still
>>> does. Let's ask next time, shall we?
>
>> I certainly will.
>
>>> Would you be so kind as to also comment on this apparent still-standing
>>> objection, please, and why you seem to have entirely disregarded it?
>>>
>>> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-04/msg00599.html
>
>> Huh? I responded directly to that at the time it was posted.
>
> Yeah, we know you knew about it, and there's no record that it was
> withdrawn. And yet you proceded to install the patch as if there
> weren't any objections and consensus had been achieved. How can that
> be?
>
> Carlos, you had suggested Zack to go ahead and install the patch. Would
> you share with us the rationale for dismissing a (AFAICT) pending
> objection instead of attempting to seek consensus?
Certainly.
In a community, particularly a community one contributes to actively,
and is involved in on day-to-day functioning. You get to know the
individuals, their styles, their jokes. With this experience in hand
you get to understand the flow of consensus building, and gathering
input from various experienced people, and their perspectives.
My analysis was that Ondrej made a joke. Had it not been a joke he
would have responded so here, because I trust Ondrej to do that,
he's quite outspoken when he doesn't agree, and I know that from
experience. Ask him directly if you like.
Therefore there was consensus.
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Cheers,
Carlos.