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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Senol Yazici <sypsilon@googlemail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, msuchanek@suse.de, jpyeron@pdinc.us
Subject: Re: [RFE] Demilitarize Documentation (was RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure))
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:17:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190220111703.GP1622@szeder.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1902191547510.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 03:58:00PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 09:02:43AM +0100, Senol Yazici wrote:
> > > 1. Dictator
> > > Concern: "Bad" connotation.
> > 
> > "Benevolent dictator" is a well-established term in open source
> > projects, and it has an inherently good connotation.
> 
> It is a well-established term, alright. Does it have an inherently good
> connotation? No, absolutely not. Every time anybody calls me the BDFL of
> Git for Windows, it annoys me, to say the least.

I would consider this an honour, but I'm not in danger of being
labelled as such.


> > > Suggestion for substitution: Principal or principal integrator.
> > 
> > These are poor substitutions.
> 
> I agree that those are poor substitutions, but shooting down without
> giving better alternatives is a poor way to reply ;-)

I'm not interested in changing these words, but I'd like to prevent
making things worse, so I'll leave the burden of providing better
alternatives with those who actually want to pursue these changes.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-20 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-18 16:51 [RFE] Demilitarize Documentation (was RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)) Randall S. Becker
2019-02-18 17:26 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-02-18 18:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-19  8:02   ` Senol Yazici
2019-02-19  9:39     ` Michal Suchánek
2019-02-19 14:47       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-02-19 16:28         ` Michal Suchánek
2019-02-19 10:01     ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-02-19 11:00       ` Senol Yazici
2019-02-19 14:58       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-02-19 16:20         ` Michal Suchánek
2019-02-20 19:54           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-02-19 20:16         ` Philip Oakley
2019-02-20 11:17         ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2019-02-19 11:19     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-19 13:33       ` Michal Suchánek
2019-02-19 13:52       ` Christian Couder
2019-02-19 13:58         ` Michal Suchánek

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