[copyleft-next] [PATCH] Handling extraordinary private communications via publication.

Bradley M. Kuhn bkuhn at ebb.org
Wed Aug 1 00:28:52 UTC 2012


Richard Fontana wrote at 23:10 (EDT) on Monday:
> Just a comment on the 'Signed-off-by:' - we haven't defined any
> Developer's Certificate of Origin so I'm not sure if this means
> anything. :)

Then the Sign-Off is indeed merely a no-op, so it can stay in,
presumably.  :) Feel free to rewrite the log if you take my
signed-off-by noop out.

> What we don't want are things like redlined Word docs, which of course
> would violate what was once known as the Harvey Birdman Rule. :-)

I should note -- so as to comply with said Harvey Birdman Rule myself --
that Fontana and I discussed this commit:
  https://gitorious.org/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/commit/b3b7e146784a474501aa8c2f37a15561e10d5f76

on a private IRC conversation yesterday.  I noted that I was sad to see
the name gone, but assumed Fontana had taken it out because it was
primarily an inside joke between me and him.  I did argue that sometimes
it's fun to have inside jokes extend into a community, but this one is
so tenuous that it's better removed.  I agreed with Fontana on that.


OTOH, given that we're *still* publicly calling it the Harvey Birdman
Rule, perhaps we should just keep the name and have it merely be
nonsensical, for lack of a better name.

(Having posted that, I believe I put our private conversation in
compliance with Harvey Birdman Rule. :)
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   -- bkuhn


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