Bug#678712: developers-reference: Please make developers reference gender neutral

2012-06-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:46:10AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > Added a sentence in README-contrib. Thank you very much. By the way, while browsing the PTS for the link to the Subversion repository to read the sentence, I noticed that the Vcs-Browser URL is broken with the current Alioth

Bug#678712: developers-reference: Please make developers reference gender neutral

2012-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The 15th Edition was published in 2003. Since then, my personal >> impression is that opposition to generic "he" has hardened considerably >> and opposition to singular "they" has weakened somewhat. Using "he" as >> a generic

Bug#678712: developers-reference: Please make developers reference gender neutral

2012-06-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: > The 15th Edition was published in 2003. Since then, my personal > impression is that opposition to generic "he" has hardened considerably > and opposition to singular "they" has weakened somewhat. Using "he" as a > generic pronoun for a person of in