Re: [PATCH] manual: Remove warning in the documentation of the abort function

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

* Alexandre Oliva:

> On Oct  9, 2019, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:
>
>> The two issues are unrelated.
>
> Even if they were, and that this coming up right now was just an
> incredibly sorry coincidence, you really think the time to hold a
> rational and sane debate is one in which some people are scared to be
> beaten up for holding controversial opinions that are not in line with
> that of the lynching mob, while others have already been beaten up for
> speaking their minds?  Seriously?

I'm sorry, but you do not seem to understand the issue at all.

>From my perspective, any chance of a rational and sane debate ceased
when you committed the revert in May 2018.  This was my worst day at Red
Hat, worse than when I was told that the team I was originally hired for
had been disbanded.  (Alexandre and I worked both on the Red Hat
Platform Tools team back then, albeit working on different things, which
is why this was also work-related matter for me.)  It took *a lot* of
effort from Carlos and others to prevent the glibc project from
disintegrating on the spot (and yes, I see it as a project on its own,
not merely a piece of code under GNU).

As I see things, here is what's going on:

The de-facto glibc maintainers want the warning removed.

The warning is offensive to many people inside and outside the GNU
community.

As a result, a GNU project decision not to remove the warning would
alienate many people.  Some of them would object to the warning itself,
some of them to the way that the glibc maintainer wishes were not
respected.

Due to how things stand today, inaction is still a decision, against
removal.

Thanks,
Florian