On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 19:12 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Can't wait for this latest howler from the great minds of Fedora to hit > Slashdot. NECRO ALERT Still catching up on devel@ archives. This was an interesting thread to read in retrospect (and much of it over my head), but I was particularly disappointed to see this. On the one hand, this is *kind of* a legitimate concern. The tech press - especially the more disreputable end of it - tends to read our lists and forums and even, on occasion, IRC, and post up ridiculous stories based on misunderstandings of what it finds. On the other hand, I think it'd be a *terrible* idea to start self-censoring our thoughts based on how they might look as a Slashdot or Phoronix (or, gods forbid, Varghese) story. That'd be an awful 'chilling effect'. Sam, this was clearly a half-baked thought Lennart threw out in passing. It wasn't a formal proposal. Andrew thought it was interesting enough to have a kick-around thread. Various smart folks considered it and there was a fairly solid consensus that it wasn't a great idea. And that's as far as it went. That seems entirely reasonable to me. It'd be kind of sad if we couldn't kick around stuff like this on a list like devel@. It's bad enough that Slashdot et al pick this stuff up and then badly misrepresent it; having our own list participants invoke/encourage that kind of thing doesn't seem at all useful to me. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
