I have to say that as someone quite familiar with "Joe the Plumber" I always thought it was a colloquial term equivalent to "Average Joe". Even after seeing this I had to go Google and it sure does look like it was coined to refer to the guy from 2008. And given the date on the bill it seems likely someone just reached for a name when that was in the news.
If it was enough to trip someone up reading the docs I'd be in favor of making the change. John Doe or some other "reserved" random name seems like it'd be easy enough to substitute. On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:05 AM, Andy Wenk <[email protected]> wrote: > my intention was not to say "leave it like it is". We can and should for > sure change the picture ... I was just wondering where else one can find > political incorrectness and controversial things. It's just a name :) and > it's not sth. controversial like "Augusto Pinochet". > > Cheers > > Andy > > > On 9 July 2014 09:26, Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Andy Wenk <[email protected]> wrote: >> > WTF? Do we need a lawyer for every sentence we, or someone from the >> > community is writing somewhere in conjunction with CouchDB? I mean it's >> > just a name. An example name. This is nonsense imho. A short explanation >> to >> > texinwien is good enough and no offense to texinwien for sure ! >> >> If we can modify our docs to not be offensive or annoying to people, >> surely that is better than if we were? They're just technical docs, we >> can use whatever example material we can think of. Surely it's not too >> hard to find something non-controversial. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dirkjan >> > > > > -- > Andy Wenk > Hamburg - Germany > RockIt! > > http://www.couchdb-buch.de > http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de > > GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 > > https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
