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From: Dean Stephens <desultory@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:14:59
Message-Id: 54E411BA.4090502@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract by hasufell
1 On 02/15/15 22:26, hasufell wrote:
2 > Scripts no one can read except the team (even after being asked to
3 > publish them) is by definition propriety software. It was used to
4 > develop and package emul-linux-x86-* packages until this very day.
5 >
6 Your prose might benefit from labeling when you are using hyperbole,
7 otherwise when you make factually inaccurate claims it might seem as
8 though you actually believe them.
9
10 In case that was unclear: while those scripts might not be formally
11 published, they have been made available to people who are not on the
12 team. Unless, that is, you define "the team" as anyone who has seen the
13 scripts; in which case you would be trivially correct by definition.
14
15 In short: less bathos, please.

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