On 12.09.2011 Jos wrote:
On 10.09.2011 Alin wrote:
Hi All,
in the last few days we had a small flood, a trickle compared with Noah's, on the mailing list about some package distributing religious content. The discussion got hijacked by personal views totally ignoring the fact that we already have guidelines for these situations...
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines#Legal
Some examples of content which are not permissible: ..... Religious texts .....
We shall decide what we should do. 1. Scrap the rule
This is something you can't discuss over a mailing list as the last week has clearly shown. It is something for a face to face meeting like the openSUSE conference. If anyone thinks the rules need changing, OK, let's discuss it here or at another conference which has a significant number of people attending.
or 2. Apply the rule.
So that's right now the way to go, I'd say. But it's the call of the team maintaining the repository (and after them the call of the release team if they accept the package or not). In the end - these 'rules' aren't black and white (but more like guidelines) and we could modify the text slightly (as has been proposed) and make an exception.
Note that I didn't mean this as an invitation for further bikeshedding. Please just discus this with the relevant people (the team) on IRC or (even better) at oSC11 and just decide... This discussion on the list should stop as it's going nowhere.
Alin
Meanwhile this discussion has also shown we have a problem with people behaving what I can only call childish. Apologies to all for the behavior of some here. Tomorrow we'll have a BOF at the conference to discuss having some moderation on this list.
I don't think these things have to be brought to the openSUSE Board. After all, if kids mis-behave, you don't go to the police, you give them a (verbal) slap on the wrist. It's how they learn.
Cheers, Jos