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(-)

I have gone ahead and applied this as a clear improvement.

I do still fear a deluge of patches changing pronouns throughout the
kernel tree, though...that would be a lot of churn, and sooner or later
it will surely bring people out of the woodwork that we would probably
prefer not to hear from.

jon