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2022-07-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 10:16:19AM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > Yes, it's one of the ways people learn about software that is being > packaged and they might like to become involved in. > I find reading ITPs > > 1) increases my interest in Debian because I see cool stuff people are > doing > > 2)

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-21 Thread Hakan Bayındır
This is exactly my point of view of ITPs as well, while I'm not as involved in Debian in most of the people here, it's a nice and proper gateway to see what's happening and what people are working on. Also, I have taken note of at least of couple pieces of software which I could use

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-20 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andrey" == Andrey Rahmatullin writes: Andrey> More sensible than not filing it? This defeats both Andrey> purposes of an ITP: getting it discussed and working as a Andrey> mutex for people who are thinking about packaging the same Andrey> software. Are there other

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-20 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Philip (2022.07.19_20:51:36_+) > > In other words, if you don't pick a culture, the _global_ dataset (ie, the > > default one) must not assume either. It takes a lot of work to prepare > > such a database, that's why this package is good to have. > > What exactly is it supposed to be good

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 06:08:16PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, at 16:57, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 01:48:17PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > >> Take Misha/Miša/Миша or Petya/Peťa/Петя. In Russian tradition, these are > >> very likely

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-19 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
>> * Package name: gender-guesser >> Version : 0.4.0 >> Upstream Author : Israel Saeta Pérez >> * URL : https://github.com/lead-ratings/gender-guesser >> * License : GPL-3 & GFDL-1.2+ >> Programming Lang: Python >> Description : Guess the gender from first

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-19 Thread Philip Hands
Adam Borowski writes: > In other words, if you don't pick a culture, the _global_ dataset (ie, the > default one) must not assume either. It takes a lot of work to prepare > such a database, that's why this package is good to have. What exactly is it supposed to be good for? From what I can

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 06:08:16PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, at 16:57, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 01:48:17PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > >> Take Misha/Miša/Миша or Petya/Peťa/Петя. In Russian tradition, these are > >> very likely masculine names,

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 01:48:17PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > No need to go that far. > Andrea in Germany is traditionally a woman’s name, Andrea in Italy is a > masculine name. How can we tell if a certain specific Andrea is named > according to the German (Czech, Slovak etc) tradition (and

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 10:54:10PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le samedi, 16 juillet 2022, 19.36:17 h CEST Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > What tools did you use to generate this data? > > > > The irony is that your "fight" requires exactly the tools you want to > > condemn, and data Debian

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le samedi, 16 juillet 2022, 19.36:17 h CEST Adrian Bunk a écrit : > What tools did you use to generate this data? > > The irony is that your "fight" requires exactly the tools you want to > condemn, and data Debian should better not collect at all. It does not. The whole argument is

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 07:10:55PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 07:05:09PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > Debian is not a project that fights for trans people or fights for > > denazification or fights for whatever other non-technical topics > > individual

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 10:05:59AM +, Stefano Rivera wrote: > I think it's our business, as a community, and as conference organisers, > to try to increase the diversity at our events. To me, that means > increasing speaker diversity, primarily. Attendee diversity won't change > unless the

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi debian-devel (2022.07.16_09:12:16_+) > I guess we should expose this in our conference statistics. We care > about it. And in the future, we will: https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/websites/wafer-debconf/-/merge_requests/150 SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Devops PK Carlisle LLC
First, by all means, if you want to develop, package and maintain this app in keeping with the quality standards a Linux distro like Debian demands, go to it. Having said that, it sounds like one of the goofiest things I have heard of recently, and I can not see ever having a use for it. But

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:14:43AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Do you have a real use for this package? > >Why in the world is that even a relevant question? There are plenty of >packages in the archive which are useful to essentially nobody apart >from the

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Holger (2022.07.16_09:42:56_+) > but why? how is gender relevant for participating in DebConf as > a whole? (i can see how it could be relevant for some events, but > not for the whole conference.) It's not. It's for statistics, as we say when we collect it. I think it's our business, as

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Edward wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Oh, not *another* package that tries to guess things from names. >> >> Do you have a real use for this package? There are a *lot* of issues >> in this area, and mis-gendering people is not something to risk >> lightly... > >I can add a warning to the

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Adrian Bunk wrote: >On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >>... >> Debian has a Diversity Statement [1] which says that Debian welcomes >> people regardless of how they identify themselves. Trans people and >> non-binary people face a lot of discrimination, harrassment and

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Christoph Biedl
Steve McIntyre wrote... > IMHO there are 2 points to an ITP: > > * to save effort in case two people might be working on the same >package And having such a lock is a good thing. > * to invite discussion on debian-devel / elsewhere Which might include reactions like: * There is already

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 09:12:16AM +, Stefano Rivera wrote: > If you're asking about DebConf 22, we have that information: [...] > I guess we should expose this in our conference statistics. We care > about it. but why? how is gender relevant for participating in DebConf as a whole? (i can

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Enrico Zini (2022-07-16 10:17:11) > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:43:16PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > > I've been writing some code to work out the gender balance of speakers at a > > conference. It parses the pentabarf XML of the schedule and feeds the > > speaker > > names to this

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Enrico (2022.07.16_08:17:11_+) > I think the right way to get the statistics you're looking for would be > to ask speakers to state their own identity on pentabarf, so that > statistics are based on self-determination, rather than external > overrides of it. If you're asking about DebConf

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:43:16PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > I've been writing some code to work out the gender balance of speakers at a > conference. It parses the pentabarf XML of the schedule and feeds the speaker > names to this module. > > Here's the results for Debconf 22. > > 72

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Ansgar
On Sat, 2022-07-16 at 08:51 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Are you actually somehow claiming that Debian's core values include > bad treatment of Jews and those other groups? Seriously, WTF? We had project members supporting antisemitic groups on project lists and DebConf events, for example in

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Adam Borowski wrote: >On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >> > > >* Package name: gender-guesser > >> Debian has a Diversity Statement [1] which says that Debian welcomes >> people regardless of how they identify themselves. Trans people and >> non-binary people face

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-15 Thread Marvin Renich
* Jeremy Bicha [220714 10:06]: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 2:41 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:14:43AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > edw...@4angle.com wrote: > > > > > > >Package: wnpp > > > >Severity: wishlist > > > >Owner: Edward Betts > > > >X-Debbugs-Cc:

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 07:10:55PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Debconf is on in Kosovo right now. If I had to work out Albanian > gender mappings from names, I'd have no clue. I decided to take a random name: the President of Kosovo. In Wikipedia I see it is Vjosa Osmani, a name completely

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 07:05:09PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > >... > > Debian has a Diversity Statement [1] which says that Debian welcomes > > people regardless of how they identify themselves. Trans people and > > non-binary people

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >... > Debian has a Diversity Statement [1] which says that Debian welcomes > people regardless of how they identify themselves. Trans people and > non-binary people face a lot of discrimination, harrassment and > bullying around the

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Wookey
On 2022-07-14 13:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > If the only reason for the ITP is to make lintian quiet then I think > that's a total waste of time - it's following a guideline blindly > without understanding the reason for it. > > How do others feel? I mostly file ITPs because Lintian moans

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 08:14:13AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Edward Betts writes: > > > I've been writing some code to work out the gender balance of speakers > > at a conference. It parses the pentabarf XML of the schedule and feeds > > the speaker names to this module. > > > Here's the

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Bernat writes: > On 2022-07-14 17:14, Russ Allbery wrote: >> (Also, due to the limitations and history of naming conventions, the >> software is inherently trying to map into a gender binary, which if one >> is attempting to capture self-identification is likely to be unhelpful >> for

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > > >* Package name: gender-guesser > Debian has a Diversity Statement [1] which says that Debian welcomes > people regardless of how they identify themselves. Trans people and > non-binary people face a lot of discrimination,

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 2022/07/14 14:52, Steve McIntyre wrote: IMHO there are 2 points to an ITP: * to save effort in case two people might be working on the same package * to invite discussion on debian-devel / elsewhere If people post an ITP and upload iummediately, then I don't think that helps on

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2022-07-14 17:14, Russ Allbery wrote: (Also, due to the limitations and history of naming conventions, the software is inherently trying to map into a gender binary, which if one is attempting to capture self-identification is likely to be unhelpful for many populations, such as ones with

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Edward Betts writes: > I've been writing some code to work out the gender balance of speakers > at a conference. It parses the pentabarf XML of the schedule and feeds > the speaker names to this module. > Here's the results for Debconf 22. > 72 speakers > male 48 66.7% >

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 14 Jul 2022 at 01:52PM +01, Steve McIntyre wrote: > IMHO there are 2 points to an ITP: > > * to save effort in case two people might be working on the same >package > * to invite discussion on debian-devel / elsewhere > > If people post an ITP and upload iummediately, then I

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 14 Jul 2022 at 02:23PM +02, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Quoting Steve McIntyre (2022-07-14 13:54:52) >> And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? > > I did that quite a few times in the past as well. Is there a rule of how long > I > have to

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve McIntyre writes: > IMHO there are 2 points to an ITP: > * to save effort in case two people might be working on the same >package > * to invite discussion on debian-devel / elsewhere > If people post an ITP and upload iummediately, then I don't think that > helps on either count.

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Nilesh Patra
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 02:31:22PM +0200, julien.pu...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > Le jeudi 14 juillet 2022 à 14:16 +0200, Marc Haber a écrit : > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:54:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre > > wrote: > > > And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? > > > > Is it

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 2:41 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:14:43AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > edw...@4angle.com wrote: > > > > >Package: wnpp > > >Severity: wishlist > > >Owner: Edward Betts > > >X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 3:12 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 05:48:56PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 08:45:24AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > > > Filing the ITP then immediately uploading seems really sensible, > > More sensible

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 05:48:56PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 08:45:24AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > Filing the ITP then immediately uploading seems really sensible, > More sensible than not filing it? > This defeats both purposes of an ITP: getting it

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 14, Marc Haber wrote: > >And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? > Is it proper procedure to upload without an ITP? Is there any point in an ITP if you are already ready to upload the package? No. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Marc Haber wrote: >On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:54:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre >wrote: >>And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? > >Is it proper procedure to upload without an ITP? IMHO there are 2 points to an ITP: * to save effort in case two people might be working on the

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 08:45:24AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? > > > > > > Is it proper procedure to upload without an ITP? > > > > > > > No ; I have to admit a large percentage of the new packages I upload > > get

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 02:31:22PM +0200, julien.pu...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > Le jeudi 14 juillet 2022 à 14:16 +0200, Marc Haber a écrit : > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:54:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre > > wrote: > > > And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? > > > > Is it

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:14:43AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > edw...@4angle.com wrote: > > >Package: wnpp > >Severity: wishlist > >Owner: Edward Betts > >X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org > > > >* Package name: gender-guesser > > Version

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread julien . puydt
Hi, Le jeudi 14 juillet 2022 à 14:16 +0200, Marc Haber a écrit : > On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:54:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre > wrote: > > And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? > > Is it proper procedure to upload without an ITP? > No ; I have to admit a large percentage

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Steve McIntyre (2022-07-14 13:54:52) > And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? I did that quite a few times in the past as well. Is there a rule of how long I have to wait with my upload to NEW after filing the ITP? signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:54:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? Is it proper procedure to upload without an ITP? -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Steve McIntyre wrote: >edw...@4angle.com wrote: > >>Package: wnpp >>Severity: wishlist >>Owner: Edward Betts >>X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org >> >>* Package name: gender-guesser >> Version : 0.4.0 >> Upstream Author : Israel Saeta Pérez

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
edw...@4angle.com wrote: >Package: wnpp >Severity: wishlist >Owner: Edward Betts >X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org > >* Package name: gender-guesser > Version : 0.4.0 > Upstream Author : Israel Saeta Pérez >* URL :