I agree with Alex, I think we should address confusion when confusion arises. Also I don't feel we want to foster a feeling of apprehension in the community when writing out an English sentence. We are all fairly global now, so I feel that I (being from the US) can read and understand UK English just fine and vice versa.
Chris On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Kessler CTR Mark J < [email protected]> wrote: > > Is this a discussion just for members of the Apache Flex team? > > I say a discussion open to the community. Having it in the public is part > of the transparency. > > -Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Héctor A [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 6:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: International English > > Is this a discussion just for members of the Apache Flex team? if not, I > just wanted to give my opinion as a foreign Flex user... sincerely, I don't > care about UK English, US English or neutral English, excluding for slangs > and/or cultural references, they all feels mostly the same for me, I'm used > to both, and the differences in technical words are often minimal > (color/colour, behavior/behaviour, etc), and it's not like inside Flex I'm > going to see things like lift/elevator, metro/subway, etc often. > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Justin Mclean <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > If we get complaints, we should try to find neutral words, but keep in > > > mind that the Apache LICENSE itself contains words with “ize” like > > > “authorize”. I don’t see how you’ll be able to remove all US English > > from > > > our release packages. > > > > > > I would need to see a clear picture on how changing spellings based on > > > user demographics is going to help the community. If we were adopt > such > > a > > > policy, we might just finish migrating to Int’l English when we find > Flex > > > has suddenly become more popular in the US and have to migrate back. > > What > > > if it is a tie? Or so close it changes week to week? What if Flex > > > becomes most popular in China? > > > > See [1]. None of the above "issues" have anything to do with my original > > suggestion. > > > > Any commit is a revert away and documents the changes. Small reversible > > changes is all we're talking about here. > > > > Justin > > > > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man >
