On 06/04/2010 10:00 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello, > > * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:26:49AM CEST: >> I'm not the automake maintainer. > > But I am. And I will rewrite its manual to just use the simplest > gender-neutral alternative, namely, speaking to and about "you", > the user, or "you", the developer.
Ralf, kudos on coming up with a workable alternative that skirts the issue of 3rd person gender altogether! I agree that GNU manuals are a perfect place to direct conversation to the reader, but I've grown too accustomed to avoiding 2nd person due to my background in other technical writing venues where 2nd person is frowned upon. Overall, I think that this email thread is another great example of why open source works - with enough readers, there's someone that can come up with an alternative solution. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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