Hi, On 07/06/21 23.57, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
This patch series officially adopts singular "they" as a contributor guideline; see Patch 4 for the change to the guidelines and the reasoning for the change. Before modifying the guidelines, documentation and comments are updated to not use gendered pronouns, which provides examples of how to use it.
Sorry for late into this debate, because I'm still on recovering from fever a week ago (I still have headache and prefer eating less).
Honestly I'm against this patchset. There are concerns from ESL learners (myself included) which have been taught that `they` MUST be used as plural pronoun.
As an alternative while still keeping singular constructs, why don't we use gender neutral pronoun "it"?
-- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
