[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Remove mention of medical condition from the test suite.

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Jul 5 11:47:48 CEST 2011


On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:27:00 +0900
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> 
> One could also use the somewhat euphemistic "unprofessional language".
> That points to why such changes are justified despite an author's
> right to have her mode of expression respected -- the Python project
> aims at professionalism, and offensive language detracts from it.

I sincerely hope we don't start using the word "professional" to denote
"careful" or "good quality". Most professional work is crap, and that's
why we have open source.

Regards

Antoine.




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