Jason S wrote: [Sun Feb 27 2005, 03:28:28PM CST] > #gentoo and #gentoo-dev has a 'clean language policy'. > So anyone asking for support or just taking advantage > of the package name will be moderated. Period. URI's, > "in quotes", or a package name....it'll get moderated.
Yes, #gentoo and #gentoo-dev are "clean language" channels, but to the best of my knowledge we've never actually "moderated" #gentoo-dev. We just politely request that people swearing in the channel not do so, and explain the rationale. If the person involved is not a dev, then he or she may end up -v. I should note that our "clean language" policy dates back to the very early days of Gentoo, and the rationale is that #gentoo-dev is a public point of contact between our users and our developers, and the policy helps us provide a bit of professionalism. It's not clear that there is anything unprofessional about referring to a programming language by its name, even if that name is rather unfortunate (in my, admittedly rather prudish, opinion). For people like me who are uncomfortable using the actual name, "brainf*ck" would be equally clear, and many people will use a similar version just out of politeness. I don't think they _need_ to do so, however, to be professional. > So don't be suprised if you hear alot more about this > if you go ahead with currently proposed package name. My understanding is that the amount of "brainf*ck" support that will be needed is likely to be pretty small. It's not exactly a language that everybody is running out to learn and deploy, after all. So, I rather doubt that one would hear "alot [sic]" about this package regardless of policy. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76
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