A nice thing about open source and the use of Git is that changes can be proposed and adopted quickly. Any proposal should be judged, not on whether it is perfect, but whether it makes an improvement. As a corollary, don’t assume that the current state is the ideal, but treat it as a platform for continuous improvements.
In this case, the phrase you objected to was removed before you made your comment. James > On Sep 20, 2019, at 11:43 PM, Hilaire <hila...@drgeo.eu> wrote: > > Le 19/09/2019 à 21:20, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit : >> >> So we are going to take the simplest one we could find that still can >> serve our community, you can see it here: >> >> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/4660 >> > Hello, > > Given the heat up on the ml, I took a look on the PR. It looks honest > and simple for but... > > ...I am really surprised -- worried will be more accurate ! -- by the > second part of this sentence[1]. I think it is even dangerous! What is > happening outside of the Pharo community should not be ruled by the > 'WE'. The 'WE' is not the universal moral police or justice. If you > think a bit about the Richard Stallman event, he was forced to withdraw > of the Free Software Foundation because comments he made in a mailing > list not related to FSF. He wrote his email contents were misinterpreted > (and we know it happens often) and used against him. Whatever it is true > or not, I don't see why you should be socially banned (or socially > killed) from one place (or more like all place) because of what happen > in another place. This kind of important decision can only be taken by > the justice where all matter are taken in consideration. Imagine one of > you kicked out of Pharo community because you loose your mind in another > channel? It makes me feel a bit like the Aldous Huxley world. > > [1] /We will not tolerate harassment from anyone in the Pharo community, > even outside of Pharo’s public communication channels./ > > Hilaire > > -- > Dr. Geo > http://drgeo.eu > > > >
