Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name
Steve McIntyre wrote:
>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...
And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP?
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