Re: CVS commit: src/share/misc

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

Am 25.04.15 um 18:07 schrieb Alan Barrett:
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2015, rodent%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
>> I'm responding to the recent posts ITT, because it seems there's some
>> misunderstanding:
> 
> I had no idea what ITT meant, until I looked it up.  (ITT = "in this
> thread", apparently).
> 
>> 1) What has been committed is no more "offensive" than the existing
>> material in wtf and fortune. Please, review fortune's data files if
>> any doubts exist;
>>
>> 2) wtf and fortune have existed in source since $TIME without any uproar;
>>
>> 3) There aren't any rules documenting appending entries to either;
>>
>> 4) We don't tend to make up rules as we go along committing;
> 
> We have a rule or at least a convention that things that are likely to
> be controversial should be discussed first.  If you don't realise that
> something is controversial, and commit without discussion, then the
> appropriate response is to engage in discussion as soon as you learn
> that the issue was controversial.  Continuing without discussion is not
> appropriate.
> 
> I think that NetBSD's acronyms file should be for acronyms that ordinary
> people are likely to encounter in ordinary situations; not for acronyms
> used in some small subculture.

As if NetBSD is not some small subculture,,,

> 
> --apb (Alan Barrett)