The article is offensive bullshit and we should have none of it. Cheers Jan --
> On 13.07.2014, at 22:14, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, bad news are also the news. We can strictly follow the advise of > three wise monkeys for certain topics, but this wouldn't make them > gone away. Instead of threat each by being fired for sharing thoughts > / participant in..hm..unwanted discussions better focus on real > problems which we have a lot and figure out how can we correctly > handle and avoid such issues in future without reputation loss of the > whole project and each member. > > The quoted paragraphs are not about something new, just retell about > things that happened on our JIRA and dev@ ML. > > The translation TL;DR: the project fall as a victim of the world-wide > disease called "political correctness" which now occurs in the form of > Newspeak - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak . Hopefully, we were > ill not too much long time to waste significant amount of our > resources on fighting with that badness like other communities did; > now we're fine and gonna rock. > > Nothing criminal. > > -- > ,,,^..^,,, > > >> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can you help translate this? Google isn't much help. It looks >> not just extremely negative but extraordinarily crude, racist and >> insensitive: >> >> ------------ >> >> And finally, a fun and at the same time sad news. Unfortunately we are with >> our systemd-changes were not a very good time for CouchDB. And it's not just >> two huge changes falling into git-repository CouchDB right now - the >> transition from a test framework to test framework etap eunit and merge with >> the project BigCouch , and two huge bombs of political correctness. >> >> In-1 to hit the community DDoS-th discussion replacement master / slave >> terminology in non-racist . This is a popular topic now - if we replace the >> expression established by the politically correct, you'll get a 10 to your >> charisma in geymifitsirovannom reallayfe. No more pros will not only >> meaningless distraction forces developers to discuss politically correct >> newspeak . And in-2 revealed that the images used in examples of the >> advertising campaign of Barack Obama or his opponent . We find it hard to >> say whose mascot was Joe The Plumber, because policy in the United States by >> the look very similar - wars lead, both Republicans and Democrats, so we do >> not know much about who's there and who to this amusement park . >> >> To the credit of the community, both discussing not only spent too much >> energy of the participants and taking place on Friday to be released early >> on Saturday and finished correcting both discussing faster than in similar >> cases in other did the community, the developers continued programming. >> >> ------------ >> >> Regardless of the final paragraph, I am appalled. >> >> I sincerely hope that no one on the CouchDB committers list or PMC >> had anything to do with this press release; in my opinion, it would >> be grounds for immediate dismissal. The argument given trivialises >> what is a serious issue for many, going beyond calling it a >> "political correctness" change and delving deep into divisive >> terminology. >> >> -Joan >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Alexander Shorin" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 10:09:04 AM >> Subject: [NEWS] Fedora news about CouchDB and systemd >> >> by Peter Lemenkov: >> >> http://ru.fedoracommunity.org/content/erlang-%D0%B8-systemd >> >> -- >> ,,,^..^,,,
