Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2021-06-29

Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] CodingGuidelines: recommend singular they

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From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2021-06-19 07:04:00

"brian m. carlson" [off-list ref] writes:
I agree that in many cases we can effectively rephrase to avoid needing
to do this, but if we acknowledge that sometimes we will need to write
using third-person personal pronouns in some cases, it's worth
documenting what those should be.
I think we've heard enough from both sides and there probably is not
misunderstanding among the folks, even though there are differences
of opinions.

I would like to consider that the last draft I did [*1*] based on
earlier suggestions by Derrick and Ævar would be a reasonable middle
ground.

I'll go mostly offline next week---I'd notice if the list came up
with a vastly different concensus when I come back, but hopefully
not ;-)

Thanks.


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*1* https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqbl86qtyf.fsf@gitster.g/ (local)
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