Re: [PATCH] doc: clarify triangular workflow

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@univ-lyon1.fr>]

BENSOUSSAN--BOHM DANIEL p1507430
<daniel.bensoussan--bohm@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> writes:

>>The document starts with
>
>   >This document attempts to write down and motivate some of the
>   >workflow elements used for `git.git` itself.  Many ideas apply
>   >in general, though the full workflow is rarely required for
>   >smaller projects with fewer people involved.
>
>>and makes me wonder (note: I am not involved in writing any of the
>>existing text in this document) how much material foreign to the
>>actual workflow used for `git.git` should go in here.  Having
>>multiple maintainers at the same time is not a workflow element that
>>we have ever used, for example, so I am not sure about the change in
>>the above paragraph.
>
> We were told to change 'he' into 'they' to be neutral.  However, it's true
> that there's one maintainer at a time so we will remove the 's' from
> "maintainers". 

Not a native speaker, but according to wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they) it's OK to write
"maintainer [singular, but already neulral] may get merge conflicts when
they [sinugular they] ..."

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