Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude?

[Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>]

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Jason S wrote: [Sun Feb 27 2005, 03:28:28PM CST]
> #gentoo and #gentoo-dev has a 'clean language policy'.
> So anyone asking for support or just taking advantage
> of the package name will be moderated. Period.  URI's,
> "in quotes", or a package name....it'll get moderated.

Yes, #gentoo and #gentoo-dev are "clean language" channels, but to the
best of my knowledge we've never actually "moderated" #gentoo-dev.  We
just politely request that people swearing in the channel not do so,
and explain the rationale.  If the person involved is not a dev, then
he or she may end up -v.

I should note that our "clean language" policy dates back to the very
early days of Gentoo, and the rationale is that #gentoo-dev is a public
point of contact between our users and our developers, and the policy
helps us provide a bit of professionalism.  It's not clear that there
is anything unprofessional about referring to a programming language by
its name, even if that name is rather unfortunate (in my, admittedly
rather prudish, opinion).  For people like me who are uncomfortable
using the actual name, "brainf*ck" would be equally clear, and many
people will use a similar version just out of politeness.  I don't
think they _need_ to do so, however, to be professional.

> So don't be suprised if you hear alot more about this
> if you go ahead with currently proposed package name. 

My understanding is that the amount of "brainf*ck" support that will be
needed is likely to be pretty small.  It's not exactly a language that
everybody is running out to learn and deploy, after all.  So, I rather
doubt that one would hear "alot [sic]" about this package regardless of policy.

-g2boojum-
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