Final statement from Steering Council on politically-charged commit messages

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 4:34 AM Dylan Distasio <interzone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's quite an interesting ruling by the SC.  I'm not surprised to see them bend the knee to PC, but it is disheartening to see they're fine opening a can of political worms in a programming language.  I suspect they will deplore messages outside of their bubble though.
>

Yes. I was hoping for "we should rewrite that commit", and would have
been content with "we won't rewrite it, but we don't want that
repeated". But the SC said that it is absolutely fine to write commit
messages like that.

ChrisA