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

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

edward@4angle.com wrote:

>Package: wnpp
>Severity: wishlist
>Owner: Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com>
>X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org
>
>* Package name    : gender-guesser
>  Version         : 0.4.0
>  Upstream Author : Israel Saeta Pérez <israel@lead-ratings.com>
>* URL             : https://github.com/lead-ratings/gender-guesser
>* License         : GPL-3 & GFDL-1.2+
>  Programming Lang: Python
>  Description     : Guess the gender from first name

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...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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