On 20 April 2017 at 09:19, Philippe Blouin <philippe.blo...@inlibro.com> wrote: > I appreciate the trivia, I was not aware of that possibility. I certainly > envy the students of the language. > > But I'll presume you've since used English quite enough to be considered > fluent in it, unlike most other Koha contributors. And if Kate is ready to > learn genderless pronouns, as I'm sure are most of the well rounded and > educated individuals that make up this community, it is not intuitive nor > easy, in fact it is very very confusing to the discrete contributor. An > unwarranted confusion, in my opinion. > > Again, to be clear, we're not talking about the face of Koha we're > presenting to the world, the Product. We're talking about coding guidelines > for code comments added genuinely by naive contributors. Lower the barrier > to entry, do not raise them!
I've already volunteered to fix any mistakes spotted, without making the person resubmit. So case closed eh? :) Bonne nuit, Pō mārie Chris > > Anyway... have a good day/night/evening/dusk/dawn/lunch > > Damn it! It's hard to be inclusive! > > Have a good they > > Philippe Blouin, > Responsable du développement informatique > > Tél. : (888) 604-2627 > philippe.blo...@inlibro.com > > inLibro | pour esprit libre | www.inLibro.com > On 04/19/2017 04:54 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: > > On 20 April 2017 at 07:48, Philippe Blouin <philippe.blo...@inlibro.com> > wrote: > > That's no strawman, that's a genuine questionning. > > You talk inclusivity, I'm all for it, but can we walk the talk now? 'They' > is a bigger barrier to entry than 'he' for non-English readers/coders. But > hey, what do I know, what is my perspective here? The stated initiative is > good: the majority of users are female, the code is male-centric, can we be > progressive, inclusive... But 'they' sucks. As I said, why not use "she" ? > > Interestingly enough, my first language Māori has no gendered pronouns at > all. > All of them are non gendered. So they is much easier to understand for me. > > Anei tōnā ngeru > Here is their cat. > > There's your useless trivia for the day. Not all non english speakers > have gendered pronouns either :) > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
