RFC: Conscious language in the Binutils

[Matthias Klose]

On 11/10/20 12:17 PM, Gary Benson via Binutils wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>> Nick Clifton wrote: 
>>> Inside Red Hat there is an initiative to address some of the language
>>> used in open source projects, making it more inclusive:
>>>   
>>> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/making-open-source-more-inclusive-eradicating-problematic-language
> [snip]
>>
>> The blog post you link seems to describe an internal Red Hat policy in
>> rather vague terms.
> 
> Eradicating problematic language isn't simply some internal Red Hat
> policy, it's something that's happening all over the world, in free
> software, nonfree software, tech, non-tech... everywhere.
> 
> GitHub changed their default branch name from "master" a month ago[1],
> GitLab and BitBucket are changing too[2][3], Postgres did it last
> year[4], and Python two years ago[5].  Django cleaned their codebase
> in 2014![6].  FWIW I didn't look very hard for examples, you could
> find more.
> 
> I approve these changes.  Today it looks strange to see "main" where
> "master" used to be.  In 1, 5, 10 years time the reverse will be true.
> It will annoy me typing "master" where I should type "main", but hey,
> I still type "cvs" sometimes when I mean "git".   Make the change,
> suffer a week readjusting your muscle memory, then thing back about
> things a year from now and wonder what the fuss was about.
> 
> Seriously, does anybody have any actual concrete reasons to object to
> this change?

no objection, however as a non-native speaker I have to look up new words, and
the meaning of "lituse" is still not obvious for me.

Matthias