Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: use singular they when appropriate

> On 6/7/2021 1:09 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 07 2021, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
>>
>>> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
>>>
>>> There are several instances in our documentation where we refer to an
>>> anonymous user as "a contributor" or "an integrator" or similar. To
>>> avoid repeating this role, pronouns are used. Previous examples
>>> chose a gender for this user, using "he/him" or "she/her" arbitrarily.
>>>
>>> Replace these uses with "they/them" to ensure that these documentation
>>> examples apply to all potential users without exception.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
>>
>> I think this is mostly an improvement, however:
>>
>>>   .../using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt      | 38 +++++++++----------
>>
>> This is a quote from a mail of Junio's[1] (date and all). I don't think
>> it makes sense to copyedit that after the fact without at least editing
>> the header that indicates that it's a verbatim reproduction.
>>
>> 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vehuyosaa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org/
> 
> That's a good point. It does look a little strange that there is
> an email in our Documentation/ directory. I wondered if this was
> included in the docs that get posted to git-scm.com, but I see that
> the link I manually constructed [1] redirects to the GitHub mirror.
> 
> [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt
> 
> As long as this file remains formatted as an archived email message,
> the edits here are inappropriate.

> It's another question of whether the
> files within Documentation/howto should be updated to be docs that can
> be more easily posted in places like git-scm.com.
> 
> For now, I'll remove these edits from the patch.