From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoid gender pronouns
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 10:27:50 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5yyh1bhl.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0my1bgp.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Sun, 13 Jun 2021 09:15:01 +0200")
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> 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/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.
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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-14 1:27 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
2021-06-14 1:27 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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