svn commit: r246362 - head/games/fortune/datfiles

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, February 05, 2013 11:51:00 am Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:45 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at 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.

-- 
John Baldwin