[PATCH] Improve adherance to the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines

David Newall davidn@davidnewall.com
Tue Oct 23 01:51:00 GMT 2018


On 23/10/18 2:25 am, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> As documented in https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html,
> GNU projects should aim to communicate in ways that are not unwelcoming.
> Multiple people have indicated that they found this joke unwelcoming,
> and in addition it is an unrelated and off-topic political issue: as the
> Guidelines say, "Please don't raise unrelated political issues in GNU
> Project discussions, because they are off-topic".

It's not a project discussion, so "as the Guidelines say" is not relevant.

Humour is a good thing and I oppose removing the joke.



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