Thanks for sharing this Alex.

WTF? Do we need a lawyer for every sentence we, or someone from the
community is writing somewhere in conjunction with CouchDB? I mean it's
just a name. An example name. This is nonsense imho. A short explanation to
texinwien is good enough and no offense to texinwien for sure !

Cheers

Andy



On 9 July 2014 07:15, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote:

> DISCLAMER: topic is a lie, don't even try.
>
> From IRC log:
>
> [03:35:15]    texinwien: In the why doc, illustrations refer to Joe the
> Plumber
> [03:36:50]    texinwien: Is this unintended coincidence or by design,
> given the political connotation of that name in the US?
> [03:37:48]    texinwien: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_the_Plumber
> [04:01:23]    chewbranca: texinwien: got a link?
> [08:52:27]    texinwien: chewbranca: can you see the link to Wikipedia
> that I posted above?
> [08:53:05]    chewbranca: texinwien: yeah I meant link to the docs
> where it talks about joe the plumber
> [08:53:07]    chewbranca: haven't seen that
> [08:54:39]    texinwien: It's in the docs / manual that install with 1.6.0
> [08:55:35]    texinwien: 1.2 Why CouchDB aka /_utils/docs/intro/why.html
> [08:57:04]    texinwien: The only link I currently have is to a local
> installation of CouchDB.
> [08:57:57]    texinwien: Is there a public, open installation of 1.6.0
> where the manual is open?
> [08:59:12]    texinwien: 1.2.3. A Better Fit for Common Applications
> [08:59:36]    texinwien: Figure 1. Self-contained documents
> [09:00:27]    texinwien: - /_utils/docs/_images/intro-why-01.png
> [09:01:13]    texinwien: The graphic shows a business card and invoice
> for "Joe the Plumber"
> [09:02:04]    Kxepal: texinwien: because this chapter was imported
> from couchdb guide: http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/why.html#better
> [09:03:42]    texinwien: +Kxepal: I wonder whether the use of such a
> politically charged name in the docs is a good idea
>
> Do we support Obama?(: Oh no, I mean, does anyone have good GIMP
> skills to fix such confusion?
>
> --
> ,,,^..^,,,
>



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