Re: The blacklist / master issue

2020-06-22 Thread Daryl
> > In this word developers said "We 100% support BLM, we against any racism. > Some of community members have sent proposal for renaming blacklist, but we > 100% sure, that this term has nothing to do with racism. Moreover, terms > can't explain things 100% clear, we just use those terms to

Re: The blacklist / master issue

2020-06-22 Thread Alexander Lyabah
I'm sorry for my bad English On Monday, June 22, 2020 at 4:40:07 PM UTC+3, John Obelenus wrote: > > Alex I find the notion that you think changing terms that have bad racial > connotations to be "embarrassing" to be entirely without merit. It is not > embarrassing to consider the feelings of

Re: Proposal: Drop dependency on pytz in favor of zoneinfo

2020-06-22 Thread Paul Ganssle
The point about the arithmetic semantics is a good one. I'm curious to know how often this is actually a problem. I think it will happen strictly less frequently than the localize case, which /is/ handled in both a backwards and forward-compatible way, and I hate to throw the baby out with the

Re: The blacklist / master issue

2020-06-22 Thread John Obelenus
Alex I find the notion that you think changing terms that have bad racial connotations to be "embarrassing" to be entirely without merit. It is not embarrassing to consider the feelings of Black and other minority people when using language. Moreover, racism is not simply a US only phenomenon.

Re: The blacklist / master issue

2020-06-22 Thread Alexander Lyabah
Daryl, I've never called anyone egocentric here, maybe thinking in a very short-term - yes (like a person, who is making decision just by current needs and not thinking about future at all) > With regard to the current "hot" topics (master/slave and blacklist / deny), these may be viewed as