Re: [RFE] Demilitarize Documentation (was RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure))

From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
Cc: Senol Yazici <sypsilon@googlemail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, jpyeron@pdinc.us
Subject: Re: [RFE] Demilitarize Documentation (was RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure))
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:47:08 +0100 (STD)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1902191540220.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190219103906.3fc4c231@naga.suse.cz>

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Hi Michal,

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, Michal Suchánek wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:02:43 +0100
> Senol Yazici <sypsilon@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Suggestion for substitution: Assistant or assistant integrator.
> 
> So now the terms sound a lot like a corporate lingo. Is it now turn for
> enthusiasts and entrepreneurs to feel excluded because git is meant
> only for corporations, and for people who had bad experience as
> corporate employees to feel offended?

The concern that was raised is a valid one. Words can do real harm, and we
should try not to keep perpetrating that same harm. We still have language
in our very README that puts off some people, for no good reason
whatsoever.

I find your comments quite offensive, as they seem to all try to downplay
the importance of words, when all you could say is that *you* have the
insane luck of being in a time and place where *you personally* are not
affected. But to belittle others who do not share that privilege is quite
out of line.

So let's give voice to those who have kind words, and rest our combative
language.

In other words, I welcome Senol's contribution, and hope that it will
cumulate in a Pull Request that fixes the website.

Ciao,
Johannes