# ADR-0009 - Use American English

## Date

2025-11-24

## Context

Gradle is an international open-source project with contributors from around the world. English is the primary language for code, comments, documentation, and communication, but there are variations in English spelling and terminology, specifically American English vs. British English.

Inconsistency in spelling conventions can lead to several issues:

# ADR-0002 - Avoid using Java serialization

## Date

2012-12-01

## Context

In Gradle we often need to serialize in-memory objects for caching, or to transmit them across process barriers, etc.
Java serialization is one way to implement this, however, despite its simplicity of implementation, it has several drawbacks:

- **Performance:**
Java's built-in serialization mechanism is often slower compared to other serialization solutions.

* Use American English spelling in code, comments, and documentation (e.g., "color" not "colour", "initialize" not "initialise"). See [ADR-0009](architecture/standards/0009-use-american-english.md) for details.

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      return true
    }
    // Check for the characters mentioned in the WHATWG Host parsing spec:
    // U+0000, U+0009, U+000A, U+000D, U+0020, "#", "%", "/", ":", "?", "@", "[", "\", and "]"
    // (excluding the characters covered above).
    if (" #%/:?@[\\]".indexOf(c) != -1) {
      return true
    }
  }
  return false
}

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    @JvmField val TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5 = init("TLS_KRB5_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5", 0x002b)

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*   tf.keras.optimizers default learning rate changes:
    *   Adadelta: 1.000 to 0.001
    *   Adagrad: 0.01 to 0.001
    *   Adamax: 0.002 to 0.001
    *   NAdam: 0.002 to 0.001

## Bug Fixes and Other Changes

*   Documentation
*   Deprecations and Symbol renames.
    *   Remove unused StringViewVariantWrapper

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