"Irssi does not take a political stance"
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"Irssi does not take a political stance"
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Re: "Irssi does not take a political stance"
#2Yikes. That commit isn't "not [taking] a political stance"; it's taking the political stance of supporting Andrew Lee's hostile takeover.
Re: "Irssi does not take a political stance"
#3I don't understand what's supposed to be political here.
We're not getting off Freenode because we don't like Andrew Lee's politics, we do because we have no faith at all in his skill as a network operator.
Re: "Irssi does not take a political stance"
#4The missing context seems to be that is a revert of an earlier commit last week [0] that switched the "default" network used in the help documentation from freenode to libera.chat.
0: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/1ba48840a112dfacf13cbb...
Re: "Irssi does not take a political stance"
#5I don't understand what's supposed to be political here. We're not getting off Freenode because we don't like Andrew Lee's politics , we do because we have no faith at all in his skill as a network operator.
Some people who have an agenda against the "left" feel like everything is a witchhunt nowadays.
Re: "Irssi does not take a political stance"
#6nerd wars
Re: "Irssi does not take a political stance"
#7I don't understand what's supposed to be political here. We're not getting off Freenode because we don't like Andrew Lee's politics , we do because we have no faith at all in his skill as a network operator.
Andrew Lee is a pretender to be Crown Prince of Korea, which kinda sorta makes it state seizure of community property. But I think OP probably meant it in the sense of taking a controversial stand... which it wasn’t until this commit.
Re: "Irssi does not take a political stance"
#8I wonder if this is the official stance of the project itself, since this commit was authored by a person who hadn't made a single commit for more than 5 years.
https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commits?author=GeertHauwaerts
Re: "Irssi does not take a political stance"
#9I think it's a little ironic that someone who hasn't seemed to have committed to the codebase of irssi for years has decided to come in and put their foot down in such an aggressive way.
Funny, I feel like I JUST saw something like this happen somewhere else...
Re: "Irssi does not take a political stance"
#10I don't get the general "we are not political" idea.
Everything is political. The conscious decision to stay put is as political as everything else.
What they want to say is: "We don't want to get involved in this and save our face while doing so"