Hey, On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Philip Van Hoof <pvanh...@gnome.org> wrote:
> 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? > Yeah idk how "PC" it is to not use the term gimp. The US, where I live, has pretty strong free speech laws, but people don't use this term because it's too offensive. So I think this is kind of an I18n issue. Meg Ford > > > 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 >
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