Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2014-03-05)

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 14:50:37 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> sgallagh wrote:
>
>>> Seriously?  Retiring useful package?  Isn't that a bit of
>>> overkill? (Yes, I'm grumpy because I'm using Cherokee).
>>
>> This has been discussed ad nauseam.
>>
>> The reasoning was that upstream ships imagery that is in violation of
>> Fedora's policy not to ship offensive material. [...]
>
> Considering the inherently political and subjective nature of this,
> could those policy terms be clarified so that "offensiveness" is
> defined simply by fesco construal?

I doubt that this can be defined .. it has to be a case by case basis.

For instance we named a release "beefy miracle" and that might have
been offensive for some people (ex. in India)., but
apparently no one cared enough to "officially" complain.


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