Final statement from Steering Council on politically-charged commit messages

[gia]

Math should stop being standardized, as it could alienate people of other
colors to it.

Commit should be rewritten as "Remove book advert from comments".

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 1:39 PM Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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