Emmanuele, that was only a joke, to try to calm things down ;-) My main target is to talk about the current change in Geary's master branch. Once fixed or resolved that point, we can discuss the next step
El jue., 25 abr. 2019 a las 16:27, Emmanuele Bassi (<eba...@gmail.com>) escribió: > > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 15:24, Daniel Mustieles García via > desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list@gnome.org> wrote: > >> The next change we could discuss is about to remove daemons, parents >> killing child process, zombies... >> > > Let's not play the tiresome "slippery slope" fallacy, here, and try to > stick to the topic of the naming of the default branch of the Git > repositories. > > Ciao, > Emmanuele. > > El jue., 25 abr. 2019 a las 16:17, Christopher Davis via >> desktop-devel-list (<desktop-devel-list@gnome.org>) escribió: >> >>> It does not reflect on history, it is not a reference to it. >>> >>> >>> That's not how language works. Language is years of words being assigned >>> meaning. As you >>> described it, master/slave terminology has the same exact meaning of a >>> relationship between a >>> real master and slave. That connection is the problematic bit, because >>> in some countries slavery >>> wasn't all that long ago, and in some places it's never left or it >>> changed forms. >>> >>> If we want to be an inclusive project, it would be beneficial to use >>> language that do esn't scratch at scars >>> when we have other metaphors we can use. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Chris >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:12 AM, Pat Suwalski <p...@suwalski.net> wrote: >>> >>> On 2019-04-25 9:58 a.m., Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list wrote: >>> >>> If you cannot maintain even a semblance of a civil discourse, the door >>> is shown to you at the bottom of every email. >>> >>> Fine, if you want it stated a different way, the terms being used are as >>> accurate as possible. There is a master process. It tells a slave what to >>> do. The slave process does it, no questions asked. This is what machines >>> do. It is accurate. It does not reflect on history, it is not a reference >>> to it. --Pat _______________________________________________ >>> desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org >>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> desktop-devel-list mailing list >>> desktop-devel-list@gnome.org >>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-devel-list mailing list >> desktop-devel-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > > > > -- > https://www.bassi.io > [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] >
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