On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 10:02 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > We are looking into changing our irc server name from irc.gimpnet.org > to irc.gnome.org and looking for feedback.
Why? > Essentially, it's become problematic to have 'gimp' in the name of our > server. To many, 'gimp' is an offensive term an given our dedication > to a11y it seems counter-intuitive to have this name in our > infrastructure. Yet another PCPOS in GNOME. When will this stop? Is there an end? Any? > The proposal is to make irc.gnome.org be an DNS A record and we will > continue to honor irc.gimpnet.org as a CNAME for one year in which > case we will then remove it altogether. Gimpnet is cultural inheritance of GNOME, I think it's a bad idea to do this for that reason. Kind regards, Philip -- Philip Van Hoof Software developer Codeminded BVBA - http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
