Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]
Le dimanche 11 juillet 2021, 22:58:55 CEST Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> > Whatever, the use of controversial words in publicly visible code is
> > not an indication of a professional attitude. Overdoing juvenile
> > enthusiasm for provocation might lead to a result like with the
> > "weboob" package which got removed from Debian
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907199
>
> Just took a look at this.
> It was a real time consuming job only to "try" fixing something done
> because a kid had too much free time !
>
> It's really childish to gratify oneself by putting offensive comments in
> a software.
I think it is bad policy of morally judging the frustration, anger or tone
of people because of their oppressors. I think being mad or offensive, at
least not even face-to-face, against your boss, bank, etc. is normal and
sane (at least it is in our country). On the other hand, tone policing
looks a bad idea to me, because it blocks debate while maybe discouraging
people to contribute their ideas u.u
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