Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 14:25:07 +0200 From: David Demelier <markand@malikania.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD asking contributors to fix their opinions - is it official? Message-ID: <9040e619-7d00-d91a-bcb4-d78e50760dae@malikania.fr> In-Reply-To: <20200321122609.GB5709@schmorp.de> References: <20200321122609.GB5709@schmorp.de>
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Le 21/03/2020 à 13:26, Marc Lehmann a écrit : > Hi! > > This is a request to clarify official policy of the FreeBSD project with > regards to regulating opinions - if this list is not the right list to > ask this question, I would be extremely happy if people could direct me > ot a more appropriate forum - I didn't find anything that seemed more > appropriate, so I am posting to this list. Apologies if this was wrong. > > Moving along, today, I received a mail[1] by some adamw@freebsd.org, > asking me to remove what "FreeBSD" perceives to be personal opinions from > my perl module, Canary::Stability[2]. > > His mail is a bit hard to read, as it makes many claims and practically > gives no evidence for them (and most are hard to believe for me, tpo be > honest). The only remotely actionably thing seesm to be that I really need > to remove these personal opinions. > > Since he writes as "@freebsd.org" and he claims that... > > I'd like to strongly urge you to retire Canary::Stability. [...] > > FreeBSD has had to go to lengths to fix Canary::Stability. If you > really are married to the module, can you please [...] remove the > personal opinions? > > If I read this correctly, he is acting in a capacity officially > representing FreeBSD in that matter and seems to indicate that the FreeBSD > project needs to police what it perceives as personal opinions. In fact, > it seems to be the most urgent and pressing matter, as nothing else of > substance was written. I personally think that personal opinions should not be present in any software (even outside FreeBSD). Code should not express personal opinions since not all people share the same and I don't want to be associated with those. I personally dislike python, ruby but I keep this for me whenever I see some problems with software I use that are written in those and do the same when I send patch about it. That said, I'm not sure if there is any policy towards this issue, but I'd love to see that FreeBSD should be unopinionated development. My $0.02. -- David
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