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

[John Baldwin]

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

We've already moved most of it many years ago.

-- 
John Baldwin