@wgahnagl @tyil The actual goal is creating good software, thank you very much. I have nothing against "marginalized groups" (indeed I think the wording is wrong) and if some folks provide me with a good alternative to a thing that hurts them I'll accept it. Authors of GIMP didn't like the new name, it's in their full right as GIMP is pretty much a brand at this point, and renaming it would ruin the popularity and thus quality.

@wgahnagl @tyil
I'm not talking about the fork, I'm talking about a merge request thread that followed. The people were extremely toxic there.

@wgahnagl @tyil That's fair, but a community that attempts to not hurt anyone is doomed to spend all the time on fixing issues with unintentional offence. People can be unintentionally offended by everything including variable names (master/slave thing for example). I'm sorry that it hurts someone, but I don't mean to hurt them, I'm just writing code. If they really want to get rid of these things, I invite them to find a better alternative, use sed and create a PR

@wgahnagl @tyil To make the world a friendlier place we need to learn to not take offence that was not intended. Learn to forgive. Learn to focus attention on real problems (like bugs in the code or aggressive nationalist groups) instead of fighting the shadow of our psychological problems.

@wgahnagl @tyil
The problem is that even made-up words that are shorter than 5-6 letters of english alphabet are most likely offensive to someone somewhere. Take for example ebuntu -- previous name for the educational version of ubuntu. The name is completely made-up, yet it's very offensive in my mother tongue (Russian). Another example is Pidora (fedora for RPi). These are just Linux distro names that are offensive in Russian. God dammit the character limit is f

@wgahnagl @tyil
It's very hard to find a name for a project that wouldn't be offensive at least somewhere in the world.

@Naughtylus You can do rolling releases by using unstable channel.

@sir
Time to compile some more...