Hi,
This part is not optimal for me:
Gendered pronouns
Try using epicene (gender-neutral) pronouns such as 'they', 'them', 'one'.
OR mix it up, use both he and she in the documentation at random(?)
I have not seen any cases where "they", "them", or "one" is insufficient. I'd
probably add "their"
On 07/05/2021 15.23, Daniel Gruno wrote:
We are also working elsewhere on a list of alternative terms to many
tech words, at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ASFP/Nomenclature+substitution+alternatives
- this might be locked off for many people, so I'll aim at bringing this
into t
On 04/05/2021 15.15, Gabriel Beims Bräscher wrote:
Hello all @diversity,
We have been seeing movements on projects changing the use of some terms.
Some of these recent changes have been addressing the "master" branch and
also replacing "black/white-list" for options such as "allow/deny-list".
R
On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:07 AM Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> Very interesting. Thank you. That term is used quite a bit in the business
> world. Yet another example of speech that has entered our lexicon without
> much thought.
>
You're welcome, and thank you for being receptive to the feedback. I a
Very interesting. Thank you. That term is used quite a bit in the business
world. Yet another example of speech that has entered our lexicon without
much thought.
I will seek to stop using it and add it to my slide deck as one of the ones
that I was surprised about.
On Fri, May 7, 2021, 08:58 Cot
On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 8:39 AM Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> One minor note: we've been working on this a long time at the spam assassin
> project and we found it to be very helpful to pow wow.
>
Even though the term 'pow wow' is widely acceptable in the US (and probably
other places), it is in fact
On 5/5/21 2:37 PM, Matt Sicker wrote:
This reference should be useful:
https://inclusivenaming.org/language/evaluation-framework/
FWIW the Inclusive Naming effort is still very young, and all of the
docs we're working on are still in flux. We're definitely working on a
*list*, but lists c
One minor note: we've been working on this a long time at the spam assassin
project and we found it to be very helpful to pow wow.
One thing I'm especially happy with is that we renamed white list and
blacklist to welcome list and block list.
This allowed us to both change our terminology to be m
Thanks for the link, Matt.
Em qua., 5 de mai. de 2021 às 15:47, Matt Sicker
escreveu:
> This reference should be useful:
> https://inclusivenaming.org/language/evaluation-framework/
>
> On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 08:15, Gabriel Beims Bräscher
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all @diversity,
> >
> > We have be
