I'm not actively involved in this project, but I'd like to share my own
perspective on general principles, which is that names (of anything)
should only describe, they should not carry metadata. People should
generally not change their names due to personal transitions,
municipalities should
"'Where is my freedom to use whatever terminology I please regardless of
how it affects others' is a bad take."
This is a straw man. We changed "whitelist" and "blacklist" because the
association of goodness with skin color is offensive. There's plenty of
other terminology I avoid because
I'm not yet an active contributor, but hope it's okay to share my 2c
worth.
I think that a change to a word with dozens of meanings, based on the
offensiveness of one, is an overreaction. I am reminded of when "leg"
and "occupy" were taboo.
I am also fine with the "wait and see" proposal.
Thanks--that did the trick.
Original Message
Subject: Re: First-time build error
Date: 25.02.2021 22:53
From: W T
To: Alan Frank
Hi Alan,
I'm relatively new as well and had the same problem a few weeks ago.
In my case, Al.exe is part of .NET Framework 4.8 SDK.
So I solved
I am a new developer, trying to get started. Ilmari provided a bunch of
resources; I installed lots of software and got to the point where I
thought I was ready to build. I entered the command and options from
the instructions:
/cygdrive/c/sources/libo-core
$
Developers,
I'm new here and, following the guidelines, would like to start with an
"Easy Hack," preferably in Javascript, Python, or SQL, but I could
probably remember Java if necessary. Alas, I'm having trouble finding
an appropriate "Easy Hack." I don't mind if it's not so easy, as I am
