On 03/17/16 17:29, Kevin Grittner wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> Sexist language is a distraction >> for some, in-your-face non-sexism (such as made-up pronouns) is a >> distraction for others, bad or awkward grammar is a distraction for yet >> others. It's not that easy to write prose that manages not to call >> attention to itself in any of these ways. But that's what we need to >> do, and s/xxx/yyy/g editing that's only thinking about one of these >> concerns is unlikely to get us there. > > +1
^^^ I would have said that if I'd been fast enough. > A grep with a quick skim of the results to exclude references to > particular people who are mentioned by name and then referred to > with a pronoun (which I assume we can leave alone), suggest there > are about 70 lines in the 1346667 line C code base that need work. > > Any word-smiths out there who want to volunteer to sort this out? So that must be N affected files for some N <= 70 ... what would you think of starting a wiki page with those N filenames (so nobody has to repeat your grepping/skimming effort), and volunteers can claim a file or five, marking them taken on that page, and wordsmith away? On 03/17/16 17:17, Gavin Flower wrote: > Wanna bet? There is a very loud movement about this. For those of us who are outside of the twitterverse sort of on purpose, are there a few representative links you could post? Maybe this is such fresh breaking news Google hasn't spidered it yet, but I didn't find any reference to the primnodes language when I looked, and I really am curious to see just exactly what kind of issue is being made around it.... -Chap -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
