Re: [PATCH] Use gender-neutral pronouns in HACKING and t/README

On 22 Jan 2022 18:58, Karl Berry wrote:
>        may be interesting for debugging, so that when a user send a verbose
>     -  output we don't have to ask him for more details.  Display stderr
>     +  output we don't have to ask them for more details.  Display stderr
> 
> I'd like to say "when users" here instead of "when a user", to avoid the
> singular/plural conflict, since it's easily avoidable in this case. (I
> know it isn't always.) Also, independently, "a verbose output" is wrong
> English. So:
> 
> --- a/t/README
> +++ b/t/README
> ..
> -  may be interesting for debugging, so that when a user send a verbose
> +  may be interesting for debugging, so that when users send verbose
>    output we don't have to ask them for more details.  Display stderr
> 
> Similarly for the HACKING change:
> 
> --- a/HACKING
> +++ b/HACKING
> @@ -24,8 +24,9 @@
> ..
> -* If somebody reports a new bug, mention their name in the commit message
> -  that fixes or exposes the bug, and add a line for them in THANKS.
> +* If a person or people report a new bug, mention their name(s) in the
> +  commit message that fixes or exposes the bug, and add a line for them
> +  in THANKS.
> 
> 
> Any objection? --thanks, karl.

these tweaks/approach make sense as a general thing, thanks
-mike

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