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Jason S wrote: [Sun Feb 27 2005, 03:28:28PM CST] |
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> #gentoo and #gentoo-dev has a 'clean language policy'. |
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> So anyone asking for support or just taking advantage |
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> of the package name will be moderated. Period. URI's, |
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> "in quotes", or a package name....it'll get moderated. |
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Yes, #gentoo and #gentoo-dev are "clean language" channels, but to the |
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best of my knowledge we've never actually "moderated" #gentoo-dev. We |
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just politely request that people swearing in the channel not do so, |
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and explain the rationale. If the person involved is not a dev, then |
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he or she may end up -v. |
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I should note that our "clean language" policy dates back to the very |
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early days of Gentoo, and the rationale is that #gentoo-dev is a public |
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point of contact between our users and our developers, and the policy |
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helps us provide a bit of professionalism. It's not clear that there |
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is anything unprofessional about referring to a programming language by |
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its name, even if that name is rather unfortunate (in my, admittedly |
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rather prudish, opinion). For people like me who are uncomfortable |
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using the actual name, "brainf*ck" would be equally clear, and many |
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people will use a similar version just out of politeness. I don't |
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think they _need_ to do so, however, to be professional. |
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> So don't be suprised if you hear alot more about this |
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> if you go ahead with currently proposed package name. |
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My understanding is that the amount of "brainf*ck" support that will be |
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needed is likely to be pretty small. It's not exactly a language that |
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everybody is running out to learn and deploy, after all. So, I rather |
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doubt that one would hear "alot [sic]" about this package regardless of policy. |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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