From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoid gender pronouns
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 09:15:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0my1bgp.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210611202819.47077-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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/pull.975.git.1623085069.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
> [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/87wnrooa17.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-13 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-11 20:28 [PATCH 0/2] Avoid gender pronouns Felipe Contreras
2021-06-11 20:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: avoid using the gender of other people Felipe Contreras
2021-06-15 13:28 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-06-15 16:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-11 20:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] comments: avoid using the gender of our users Felipe Contreras
2021-06-15 13:31 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-06-15 14:16 ` Paul Smith
2021-06-15 16:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-15 16:36 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-12 1:17 ` [PATCH 0/2] Avoid gender pronouns Bagas Sanjaya
2021-06-12 1:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-12 23:24 ` Robert Karszniewicz
2021-06-13 7:15 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2021-06-14 1:27 ` Junio C Hamano
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