Use more inclusive verbiage #340
The context is not regarding a person. In this case sane would mean something more like reasonable/sensible and has nothing to do with mental health.
I totally understand what the word means in this context, and my point is just that there are better ways of phrasing it that don't have any potential to be exclusionary :) This same reasoning is why we avoid words like "retarded" and "dumb" - the context might not have anything to do with humans, but they're needless slurs, and there are plenty of other ways to say the same thing.
The wording we use is verbatim from the code manifesto; if you have suggestions on wording, please make them against its own repository, and we will pull them in if merged.
This is what comes of me reading PRs on my phone... Re-opening, and will re-evaluate. Thanks for the PR, @i-am-tom !
I back-ported the changes to the documentation source files, which are under the doc/book/ tree of the master and develop branches, and written in markdown. Documentation rebuilds after pushes to master, so you'll see your change show up shortly.
Thanks for the patch, @i-am-tom !
This is made in reference to point 1 of the code manifesto, really, and updates documentation accordingly.
This might sound like nitpicking, but I think we'd probably be better off avoiding these references to mental health; thoughts?