Bug 85401

Summary:	Do not used gendered pronouns
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	klausi <klaus.purer>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
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Description klausi 2014-10-24 09:43:25 UTC

Commit http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=989fc2c61cb3c5376bd8bff6b2cfba9e4d740ffc introduced gendered pronouns like "his" instead of the generic "their". We should not assume that users are male, since we are an inclusive community towards all genders.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2014-10-24 10:08:11 UTC

Oh, my. What have I done?

Changed in git.

Comment 2 klausi 2014-10-24 10:15:59 UTC

Cool, thanks!

There is a small typo "... session of a user ends, ther user's systemd instance ...", should be just "the".

Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2014-10-24 10:41:17 UTC

Fixed that too.

Could you please pass the commit back to wherver you got your hints about this from (twitter?)? I really don't want all those people who are too lazy to check before they post a bug coming by here. Thanks!

Comment 4 klausi 2014-10-24 11:06:31 UTC

There are a couple of other places using "his" and "himself".
Patch: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/17

Comment 5 Lennart Poettering 2014-10-24 11:23:49 UTC

any chance you can attach those as git-format-patch formatted patches here? the github UI apparently doesn't have a way how i can download something i can apply with git am? or am i blind?

Comment 6 klausi 2014-10-24 11:28:27 UTC

Just append ".patch" to a pull request :-)
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/17.patch

Comment 7 Lennart Poettering 2014-10-24 11:32:48 UTC

grrr, hidden feature, grrr.... lock-in ... grrr.

anyway, commited. thanks.

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