On 12/26/24 10:53, Justin Rye wrote: > Ananthu C V <weepingclown@debian.org> wrote: << snip >> >>> unstable >>> -------- >>> This is where active development of Debian occurs. Generally, unstable >>> is used by developers and advanced users who like to live on the >>> edge. >> >> While that is a very common usage, I find it quite aggresive (because I >> know a lot of developers live on actual $edge of mental health), and hence >> suggest the usage of something along the lines of "... who like to stay on >> the bleeding edge of technology" (or any better versions of that). That is >> just a personal prefrence but I can guarantee that I am gasping each time >> I read the line :( > > "Live on the edge" is in the current webpage; I'd have said if we're going to > avoid expressions with unfortunate associations then we might also want to > avoid "the bleeding edge" as glamourising/trivialising violence. Perhaps we > could say "run by developers and users who like living dangerously"? While we work this out, for an upcoming bits post I omitted living on the edge and used a caveat about unstable. Though thinking about this we could easily change 'live on the edge' to 'live on the developing edge of technology[1]'. [1] or 'software'. -- - Be well, Donald Norwood -- - ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Donald Norwood ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ B7A1 5F45 5B28 7F38 4174 ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ D5E9 E5EC 4AC9 BD62 7B05
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