knowing where “thin blue line” comes from, you don’t see anything wrong with a maintainer randomly dropping it on the mailing list?
Alright, fair. I was more refering to the content of the message, not the (botched) metaphore of maintainers as a force of order.
ah, fair enough. i guess that’s kind of the thing with potential dogwhistles. if you know, you know.
https://archive.org/details/thethinbluelinecomplete
Starring Rowan Atkinson
Its simply the Police in general…
You scrolled half a wiki page to the part that fits your narrative.
The metaphor of a thin blue line is that they “the police” are not in the typical sense very large, like an army, but they do keep the order with a thin presence of rule and order. Sounds like what maintainers do in this case.
i scrolled half a wiki page to link to… facts.
That’s not where “it comes from” though. Since if it were,it wouldnt need to be half a page down.
It’s associated yes, but not in everybodies mind is that the case.
