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

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 6 07:18:10 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 04:17:25PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
J> On Tuesday, February 05, 2013 3:55:47 pm Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
J> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:58:54AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
J> > J> > > On Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:39:38 am Dag-Erling SmXXrgrav wrote:
J> > J> > > > Author: des
J> > J> > > > Date: Tue Feb  5 14:39:37 2013
J> > J> > > > New Revision: 246362
J> > J> > > > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/246362
J> > J> > > >
J> > J> > > > Log:
J> > J> > > >   Remove political propaganda
J> > J> > > >
J> > J> > > > Modified:
J> > J> > > >   head/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes-o.real
J> > J> > >
J> > J> > > *sigh*
J> > J> > >
J> > J> > > I'm sure there are other quotes that people who do not share your political
J> > J> > > persuasion might find propaganda or offensive, etc.  Censorship and freedom
J> > J> > > of speech is quite a sticky widget, and I think the only truly sane policy
J> > J> > > is that fortune files are append-only (unless we outright remove them and
J> > J> > > that seems excessive).  And new things should have a very high bar to be
J> > J> > > added to fortune.  Perhaps we should move fortunes-o to ports entirely?
J> > J> > >
J> > J> > 
J> > J> > I am more concerned about the insta-MFC than the removal per se.
J> > J> > Only security or legal issues are cause to go under 3 days, was my
J> > J> > impression.
J> > J> 
J> > J> Yes, the insta-MFC is also not appropriate, esp. for something that you know
J> > J> is going to raise eyebrows when it is committed.  Having to debate this sort
J> > J> of thing in public on mailing lists is also distinctly unhelpful and very
J> > J> distracting from productive work.  Also, I'd like to preemptively ask
J> > J> developers to refrain from any further commits to the fortunes datfiles for
J> > J> the time being as the last thing we need is a commit war over this sort of
J> > J> thing.
J> > 
J> > What about just moving the entire games subdirectory to ports repo?
J> 
J> We've already moved most of it many years ago.

The yesterday bikeshed proves that "most" isn't enough. :( The entire games subdir
needs to be moved.

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Totus tuus, Glebius.


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