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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert Abortion joke removal.
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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On 05/07/2018 07:51 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
>> If you felt so strongly about it, why did you not respond there?
> 
> I feel the need to speak up, because you are encouraging a kind of
> behavior that can deeply harm a project.
> 
> The standard of consensus used by this project is not "if you do not
> speak up very very quickly, then your opinion does not matter".
> 
> This project relies on maintainers' ability to judge consensus, and
> several of the maintainers have already judged it accurately, in my
> opinion.  On the other hand you are a GNU maintainer and have some
> responsibilities associated with that, and I don't fault you for
> carrying them out.  Just don't pretend this is consensus, and don't
> encourage people to quickly pile on to every patch they dislike for
> fear that consensus will be misjudged.

Agreed.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.