On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Owen Jacobson <owen.jacob...@grimoire.ca> wrote: -snip- > 1. What social biases and problems *do* we unwittingly encourage by way of > community-tolerated behaviour? Where, if not through the conventions for > naming, do we encourage sexism, racism, and other mindlessly exclusionary > behaviour?
If some random dolt names their project "nazi_kill_gays.py" or some other clearly wrong thing, and I don't notice it, I'm not "tolerating" it. That standard is clearly absurd. Nor am I encouraging it. The word "encourage" is not a synonym for "do not punish". As you can see, there is no "convention" encouraging sexist, racist, or otherwise exclusionary naming schemes. > 2. What kind of social pressure can we bring to bear to _keep_ Python's > package naming conventions as socially neutral as they are, if and when some > high-profile dirtbag decides this language is the best language? How can we > apply the same pressures to other parts of the Python community? The social pressure is that you get called a childish and immature hooligan, publicly, by the chair of the PSF. Along with an army of not-so-famous people yelling at you. It's apparently quite persuasive. http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2011/07/childish-behavior.html Sincerely, -- Devin Jeanpierre -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
