+1 El mié., 19 de abr. de 2017 4:23 AM, Alex Sassmannshausen < alex.sassmannshau...@gmail.com> escribió:
> Hi Eric, > > Eric Phetteplace writes: > > > Hi list, > > > > I opened bug #18432 > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18432 because I > saw several places in the Koha codebase where the pronoun "he" was being > used to refer to a generic third person who could be of any > > gender. Jonathan Druart noted that this should be a coding guideline, as > otherwise new instances of gendered pronouns might continue to be added. > Perhaps it belongs on the "Terminology" page of the wiki? > > > > So here's my proposal. I'm trying to be concise. > > > > ---- > > > > Use gender neutral pronouns > > > > When referring to a person who could be of any gender, you should use > the words they/them/their. This goes for code comments, text in templates, > and strings in tests. For example, here's a string from a patrons test > updated to be gender > > neutral. > > > > Before: > > > > is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become a > juvenile, he should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) ); > > > > After: > > > > is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become a > juvenile, they should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) ); > > > > Gender neutral terms are preferable for a few reasons. They're more > welcoming, showing that Koha expects users and contributors to be of any > gender. They're also more accurate. Inappropriately using a particular > gender can cause confusion, > > leading someone to believe that code operates differently based on the > value of borrowers.sex, for instance. > > > > ---- > > I like the proposal, thanks for putting it together! > > Best wishes, > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (https://theke.io <http://theke.io/>) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F
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