[rain1@airmail.cc] Delete abortion joke

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@gotplt.org
Fri May 4 06:52:00 GMT 2018


On 05/04/2018 09:50 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> As the head of the GNU Project, I am in charge of what we publish
> in GNU manuals.  I decide the criteria to decide by, too.

I assume you have commit access then, so please feel free to reinstate 
the change with your ID and let it be known that you do that despite 
objection from the glibc community.

Maybe the consensus[1] doc in the wiki also needs to be modified to 
reflect that reality:

'''
The GNU C Library project is mostly a consensus-based community-driven 
project.

Consensus: General agreement, characterized by the absence of sustained 
opposition to substantial issues by an important part of the concerned 
interests and by a process that involves seeking to take into account 
the views of all parties concerned and to reconcile any conflicting 
arguments. Consensus need not imply unanimity. Although it is necessary 
for developer work to progress speedily, sufficient time is required for 
the discussion, negotiation and resolution of significant technical 
disagreements. Developers need to ensure discipline with respect to 
release schedules in order to avoid long review times. Similarly, to 
avoid re-discussion, developers have the responsibility of ensuring that 
their contribution takes into account all interests concerned, and that 
this standpoint is made clear at an early stage of the work rather than, 
for example, in a final patch or commit. (Language based loosely on the 
ISO definition).

An exception to the criteria of consensus is the case where general 
consensus in the community offends the dear leader of the GNU Project in 
  any way.
'''

Siddhesh

[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Consensus



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