Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 17:14:11 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling SmXXrgrav <des@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r246362 - head/games/fortune/datfiles Message-ID: <CADLo838kXRAGB8c1QGtPTEqyczbWx9C8=_2eavk1NrDjyekz5g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201302051158.55117.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201302051439.r15EdcE7011203@svn.freebsd.org> <201302051145.40104.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAJ5_RoBv1hePcsiNLzgkmaOKn4oLwBsjr-g0pjAZHzAW-N5n5A@mail.gmail.com> <201302051158.55117.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 5 Feb 2013 17:01, "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 05, 2013 11:51:00 am Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:45 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:39:38 am Dag-Erling SmXXrgrav wrote: > > > > Author: des > > > > Date: Tue Feb 5 14:39:37 2013 > > > > New Revision: 246362 > > > > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/246362 > > > > > > > > Log: > > > > Remove political propaganda > > > > > > > > Modified: > > > > head/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real > > > > > > *sigh* > > > > > > I'm sure there are other quotes that people who do not share your political > > > persuasion might find propaganda or offensive, etc. Censorship and freedom > > > of speech is quite a sticky widget, and I think the only truly sane policy > > > is that fortune files are append-only (unless we outright remove them and > > > that seems excessive). And new things should have a very high bar to be > > > added to fortune. Perhaps we should move fortunes-o to ports entirely? > > > > > > > I am more concerned about the insta-MFC than the removal per se. > > Only security or legal issues are cause to go under 3 days, was my > > impression. > > Yes, the insta-MFC is also not appropriate, esp. for something that you know > is going to raise eyebrows when it is committed. Having to debate this sort > of thing in public on mailing lists is also distinctly unhelpful and very > distracting from productive work. Also, I'd like to preemptively ask > developers to refrain from any further commits to the fortunes datfiles for > the time being as the last thing we need is a commit war over this sort of > thing. Moving the -o file to ports as you suggested is probably the best idea. Or simply allowing people to fetch their own.... I don't see why we should have trash installed by default on a professional operating system; we have higher standards in other areas. Chris
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