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02/02: doc: Add note on gender-neutral wording.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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02/02: doc: Add note on gender-neutral wording. |
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Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:28:39 +0000 (UTC) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 3c2d03a2b91a085b94c66e7810f358988538d1e4
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date: Thu Jul 21 18:05:39 2016 +0000
doc: Add note on gender-neutral wording.
Suggested by ng0 <address@hidden>.
* doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Add @item regarding
gender-neutral wording.
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doc/contributing.texi | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 208c6af..dc554d2 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -323,6 +323,12 @@ related to the hardware---e.g., use of different
instruction set
extensions---or to the operating system kernel---e.g., reliance on
@code{uname} or @file{/proc} files.
address@hidden
+When writing documentation, please use gender-neutral wording when
+referring to people, such as
address@hidden://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they, singular
+``they''@comma{} ``their''@comma{} ``them''}, and so forth.
+
@end enumerate
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