Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > I would like to encourage people in this thread who are calling for a > change in wording here to consider whether this sort of discussion is a > good use of the ML's time, and the chilling effect of being overly picky > when many contributors are working in their second, third etc. language. I completely agree. However, there's a difference between calling for a change, and expressing one's personal taste. The later can be useful feedback, the former tramples the progress of a patch series. > Personally I don't care whether someone submits a patch where their > commit message discusses an example of "he", "she", "they", "it" or > whatever. It's just meant as an example, and not some statement about > what the gender (or lack thereof) of such a user *should* be. Agreed. My only concern is readability, nonetheless a poorly readable commit message is not a road-blocker. What should not be debatable is that this is a software project, it should not concern itself with linguistic debates. The proper use of language is a matter for others to decide. If a member of the community expresses her/his personal taste that Y is a better word than X, that's fine. But to *demand* a word change is something else. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
