The technical merit is simple, it's not broken, don't fix it.
There is no technical merit to be achieved here. I feel that a lot of the
argument here is just that.
The is merely a moral merit.
I think these types of changes should be used for new projects, but for
existing projects like SA the risk versus reward might be too high. Will SA
live long if the implantation fails and takes down a couple systems for notable
companies? If email fails because of a small change you risk hurting the
project more than promoting it.
I think this moral merit change is splitting this community at this point, and
that is how we kill projects.
Now I'm not weighing in on whether this change is right or wrong from a
geopolitical point of view and that's just a rabbit hole for absolute
interpretation by the observers (what offends one does not offend the other,
vice versa). You will never please 100% of the people 100% of the time, you
will only ever please the loudest or the ones that would cause the most trouble
(these are just general observations of life).
Hopefully this is not the hill SA dies on.
-----Original Message-----
From: jdow <j...@earthlink.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 3:07 AM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org; Marc Roos <m.r...@f1-outsourcing.eu>;
kmcgrail <kmcgr...@apache.org>
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PEOPLE RUNNING TRUNK re: [Bug 7826] Improve
language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave
Please Marc, stick to technical merit for your argument. Getting nasty does not
solve technical problems, which we have here. Attacks are not going to solve
anything. Rational arguments may not. But, they should be made just the same.
Then the open source developers will go off and do what they (think they) want.
The job is to lead them to thinking they want something different for what they
see as good reasons. Personally I believe the change is a technical failure and
will not provide the social results they seem to desire. They should think
about it.
{o.o}
On 20200714 02:57:19, Marc Roos wrote:
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>> To you and others spouting off, be reminded that this is a publicly
> archived mailing list and you
>> will be on the wrong side of history. Consider that when you post.
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> You must be feeling like a king in your little PMC? Who are you to
> judge whom is on the wrong side of history. No wonder people raise
> questions here, with someone like you deciding things. I think the PMC
> should disqualify your vote.
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