Re: [PATCH] docs: process: use gender-neutral pronouns

[Jonathan Corbet]

Ruben Sutton <ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Several process documents use gendered pronouns when referring
> generically to developers and maintainers. Use singular they instead,
> making the language inclusive without changing its meaning.
>
> Leave pronouns referring to named people and text in attributed
> quotations unchanged.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Ruben Sutton <ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/2.Process.rst            | 2 +-
>  Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst            | 2 +-
>  Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst      | 2 +-
>  Documentation/process/handling-regressions.rst | 2 +-
>  Documentation/process/howto.rst                | 2 +-
>  Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst   | 2 +-
>  6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Ouch.

I have no objection in principle to this change, but if we try to clean
up the whole kernel in this way we're going to have a *lot* of churn
and, undoubtedly, some unpleasant discussions at some point.

I'm tempted to raise this question at the maintainers summit to see if I
can get some sort of project-wide policy laid out.

Thanks,

jon