Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Use singular "they" when appropriate

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Derrick Stolee wrote:
> On 6/15/2021 2:02 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > I just retried a "competing" merge that got ugly ;-)
> > 
> > Between Derrick's two "singular they" patches (one for comments, the
> > other for docs) and Felipe's two patches (the same split), they
> > touch identical base text.  Only the way they neuter the description
> > is different, and to me the latter feels a bit more ESL friendly.
> > 
> > So, the main things that are missing from Felipe's version that we
> > may want to build on top before the whole discussion can be
> > concluded are:
> > 
> >  - Derrick's "typofix" patch, but if I recall correctly it needed a
> >    fix-up in one of its hunks?
> > 
> >  - Guidelines; you had a more generic readability tips that would
> >    (incidentally) result in nudging the writers to be more gender
> >    neutral, which I think is going in the right direction, but I do
> >    prefer to see an explicit mention of gender-neutrality as one
> >    bullet item.
> 
> I will send a v3 soon with Felipe's two patches, a fixed typo patch,
> and a new set of guidelines.

I don't believe it's necessary to tie the guideline with the fixes. The
guideline might be desirable without the fixes (depending what the
guideline says), and the fixes can be applied without the guideline. In
other words: they are orthogonal.

Tying them together only ensures the fixes are going to be unnecessarily
delayed until we find appropriate guideliens (if we ever do).

-- 
Felipe Contreras