Hello,
I'm in favor of adding support for {% translate %} and {% blocktranslate %} and
switching the Django documentation to use these for two reasons:
- As stated by Mike, the mental associations that "block trans" creates for
those who identify as trans are just bad — I can't believe it took us 12 years
to notice :-/
- Even if we leave that aside, I'm not sure saving 4 characters (8 with the
closing tag) is really worth the uncommon abbreviation of "translate".
Since this change brings mostly a social benefit rather than a technical
benefit, we could keep the {% trans %} and {% blocktrans %} aliases forever.
Also, this could minimize arguments between those who recognize the benefits of
such changes and those who don't, as we've seen when we changed master / slave
to primary / replica.
In my opinion, such debates mostly reflect the political rift that appeared in
many Western countries in the recent years. It's completely predictable that
they spill into our community. Since they aren't our main focus, we're trying
to avoid spending too much time there. But we can't escape the fact that we're
making Django first for people writing software, then for computers running
that software.
As a community, we chose to state in our Code of Conduct that "we strive to be
a community that welcomes and supports people of all backgrounds and identities
[including] sexual orientation, gender identity and expression". I believe that
the change proposed here is in line with this statement. I know that some
community members will feel that we're doing too much here — and that others
feel that we aren't doing enough in general — which is why I'm referencing
something we already agreed upon.
Best regards,
--
Aymeric.
> On 26 Jul 2019, at 13:17, 'Mike Hansen' via Django developers (Contributions
> to Django itself) <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Recently I had a member of my team bring up that it was uncomfortable
> for them to work in parts of our codebase where they regularly had to
> see "blocktrans" in the template files. To make our work environment
> more inclusive, I wrote a Django package
> <https://pypi.org/project/django-translation-aliases/> which adds "translate"
> and
> "blocktranslate" templatetag aliases so that we could update our own
> internal templates to use these.
>
> We felt that this change would be in line with the Django community
> so I made a ticket and pull request to Django at
> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30585
> <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30585> . The ticket was closed as
> "wontfix", and it was mentioned that I should bring it to django-developers
> if I wanted to make further progress on the ticket.
>
> Thanks,
> --Mike
>
>
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