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2020 Jun 19
2
Inclusive language in LLVM: can we rename `master` branch?
...*he* wanted. If changing terminology makes things clearer (and I think it does here, especially for non-native speakers), then I'm all for it, but not just because the Americans are trying to solve their political angst. ALL words have overtones, and all the variations of English/American/Strine/Pidgin/Whatever-else-I-can't-name make life very difficult. I was never able to participate properly when the subject of race came up on Groklaw - "black" was seen as an offensive and banned word, and of course I can't use the phrase "African American". The equivalen...
2020 Jul 15
2
Inclusive language in LLVM: can we rename `master` branch?
...be I'm more sensitive than most, probably am, but I wish the > Americans would have decency and national pride to do want plenty of > other countries have done - NOT call their own language "English". > "American" would be perfect - the Australians call theirs "Strine" (a > contraction of Australian), Canadians call it Canadian English, I don't > know where it is but there's Pidgin ... let's face it - MOST other > countries have renamed their language to some degree or other. > > Cheers, > Wol > _____________________________...
2020 Jun 21
2
Inclusive language in LLVM: can we rename `master` branch?
On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 02:00, Lang Hames via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > If the bar for removal / renaming is "Use of X is offensive", or "Use of X is clearly impacting contributors or potential contributors" then I'm all for it. If the bar is "Nobody has actually complained, but X could be mistaken for something offensive" that seems
2012 May 14
6
problem with importing node definitions (2.7.14) [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Hi all, Doing some work with a puppet 2.7.14 installation to see what''s new and needs to be changed, however i''m seeing unexpected behavior with my manifests, so my external node directory isn''t being imported. This is on a rhel 5 server with the puppet rpms from yum.puppetlabs.com, but the cilent machines is based on fc17 beta with 2.7.13 rpm (which is with that
2020 Jun 19
21
Inclusive language in LLVM: can we rename `master` branch?
Hi, When we moved to GitHub a few months ago, we used without more consideration the "master" convention to name our development branch. On SVN it used to be just "trunk". This naming is unfortunate <https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html#rfc.section.1.1> as it can hurt some contributors