[Bug 288064] Antisemitism and hate speech in official FreeBSD wiki

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288064

--- Comment #9 from Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org> ---
Status report.

fwiw, if I knew how to lock PRs so that no further comments could be made, I
would have done that the first evening this PR came in.

I think we are now at private email #30 or so.  We have gotten to the
"well, what is the wiki _for_, anyway" stage.

The underlying problem is that we had never defined Terms & Conditions for
using the wiki.  In fact, it was stood up years ago as an experiment, with the
unstated assumption that it would be strictly about technical topics, and
that contributors would collaborate.

And so now we are in a position where we are demanded to iterate over Terms &
Conditions, and then, "language-lawyer" over what all that means.

I will state my extremely strong opinion that none of this improves the
quality of any of our software or documentation.  Those are my chief interests
and the reasons why I have stayed with the Project so long.

Also, as hard as it may be to believe, both dch@ and I have had real-world
responsibilities that we had already scheduled, during the last 48 hours.

I have done my best to hold my temper with everyone commenting here but I
have to admit right now I am finding it hard to do so.

Anyone who thinks a bunch of computer nerds will be able to solve real-world
problems that have frustrated all attempts over the years, probably needs to
go take a good, hard, look in the mirror.

I continue to search for some wording that will allow everyone to feel "heard"
but frankly it seems impossible.

I would like to ask that everyone take a breath and avoid further comments
while dch@ and I work on the issue in the meantime.

Thanks.

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