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>>>>> On Tue, 01 Oct 2013, Rick "Zero Chaos" Farina wrote: |
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> On 10/01/2013 06:45 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>> This would imply mirror restriction for some of our packages |
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>> (mostly fortune cookies and some artwork, but also packages like |
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>> app-admin/sudo). However, with USE=offensive we already have a |
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>> mechanism in place that covers such cases, so I believe that no |
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>> further action is needed there. |
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> Mirror restricting something like sudo because of the optional and |
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> properly named offensive use flag is rediculous. Either this kind of |
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> thing is okay and it stays, or we won't allow it and the flag should |
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> be removed. Please, sanity first, mirror restricting something with |
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> offensive language just hurts user experience for the (in this case |
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> core) package. |
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Exactly. The wording of the CoC should be changed, to make clear that |
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it applies only to communication between individuals, not to packages |
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that we distribute. |
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I'd also be fine with rich0's suggestion, i.e. to use the existing CoC |
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as a starting point. |
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Ulrich |
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