Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoid gender pronouns

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 10:27:50 +0900

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 11 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> The latest solution looking for a problem [1] is to use the actively
>> debated among linguists singular "they" [2].
>>
>> Leaving aside the linguistic intricacies that not all singular "they" are
>> equal [3], and the overwhelming sentiment that these kinds of political
>> discussions don't provide value for this community [4], the "issue" can
>> be easily solved by simply using different wording.
>>
>>   - The reviewer herself
>>   + The reviewers themselves
>>
>> Problem solved.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/
>> [2] https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/01/singular-their-affront-good-writing/319329/
>> [3] https://ahdictionary.tumblr.com/post/147597257733/updated-usage-note-they
>> [4] https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/
>>
>> Felipe Contreras (2):
>>   doc: avoid using the gender of other people
>>   comments: avoid using the gender of our users
>
> This looks good to me, especially the reduction in verbosity in hunks
> like:
> 	
> 	- * parameters to the callback, `strbuf_expand()` passes a context pointer,
> 	- * which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit.
> 	+ * parameters to the callback, `strbuf_expand()` passes a context
> 	+ * pointer with any kind of data.
>
> The comment gives you the same information, but now it takes a shorter
> time to read it.

Looks good to me.  I am tempted to suggest that we should take this
as "fix to the documentation proper".  We can discuss the policy and
guideline separately.