Hi there, Gentlefolks, please everyone calm down. Being rude or insulting to fellow hackers is not acceptable on the project’s communication channels, period. When you feel unable to express your disagreement in a constructive and respectful manner, please delay your reply until you can do that.
We added to the contribution guidelines in the manual a while back an item about using gender-neutral wording in our documentation. We’ll do that because I believe it’s one of the modest ways in which we can help fight gender bias in our domain, and because it’s a tiny effort and leads to “valid” understandable English (there’s lots of documentation about the origins of singular they, BTW.) Besides, while I appreciate it when native English speakers provide corrections and guidance, I think we as a project must tolerate English mistakes in our communication. The reason for this is very simple: most contributors are not native English speakers. English is our communication medium; it shouldn’t be a hindrance to the inclusion of contributors who do not master it. Happy hacking! Ludo’.
