On Wed Apr 14, 2021 at 2:28 PM BST, Thomas Koenig via Gcc wrote: > On 14.04.21 15:18, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > A strong norm about off-list behavior and politics being > > out of bounds here is also helpful. > > That would have banned the whole discussion about the potential > fork from the start.
Given that the whole discussion seems to have been purposed entirely to calculate a way for certain GCC contributors to virtue signal their disapproval to the founder of the project's (debunked) bad behaviors, perhaps that would have been a good thing. Unfortunately, I think ESR's suggestion was merely that people shouldn't be banned for off-list behavior or politics (which also would have prevented RMS from being removed from the SC). Perhaps the best lesson to take is that allowing a mailing list which is supposed to be for technical discussion to be turned into a space for virtue signalling and political gatekeeping isn't ideal. >>= %frosku = { os => 'gnu+linux', editor => 'emacs', coffee => 1 } =<<