Offending messages in kommit manual

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Fri Jun 14 09:45:34 BST 2024


El divendres, 14 de juny del 2024, a les 10:05:07 (CEST), Ingo Klöcker va escriure:
> On Freitag, 14. Juni 2024 07:59:37 CEST Halla Rempt wrote:
> > On vrijdag 14 juni 2024 07:10:30 CEST Matjaž Jeran wrote:
> > > In the file KDE_i18n_sl/trunk/l10n-kf5/sl/docmessages/kommit/kommit.po
> > > there is a phrase
> > > »You silly goose! Check out the <link linkend="commands">Commands
> > > Section</link> for the answer.«
> > > 
> > > I know that programming subculture can be weird sometimes  - but
> > > I believe that
> > > - such tone does not make KDE Plasma a user friendly environment
> > > - in Slovenian culture silly goose is associated with stupid women – so
> > > it
> > > is offending
> > 
> > Well, not just in Slovenia, it's incredibly offensive in Dutch, too.
> 
> And in German.
> 
> CC'ing the CWG to bring it to their attention.

Why would you CC the CWG instead of talking to person that wrote what is clearly a well intentioned but possible failed attempt at humour?

Also now that i check that docbook it's almost clear that's a copy&paste from somewhere else...

... yes it is, introduced by Riddell 10 years ago

https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kapptemplate/-/commit/5eef060d0964627381e878c8bdb6ba7fb050a0a3

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Regards,
> Ingo






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