removed-gendered-terms

[gonyere]

Replacing gendered terms 'he', 'his', 'guy' and 'he/she' with 'they', 'their' and 'person'.

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If this PR requires any particular action or consideration before deployment,
please check the reasons or add your own to the list:

• Requires a database migration that can cause downtime. Postpone deployment until maintenance window[1].
• Contains a data migration that can cause temporary inconsistency, so should be run at a specific point of time.
• Changes some configuration files (e.g. options.yml), so the changes have to be applied manually in the reference server.
• A new Feature Toggle[2] should be enabled in the reference server.
• Proper documentation or announcement has to be published upfront since the introduced changes can confuse the users.

[1] https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/wiki/Deployment-of-build.opensuse.org#when-there-are-migrations
[2] https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/wiki/Feature-Toggles-%28Flipper%29#you-want-real-people-to-test-your-feature

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[dmarcoux]

Thank you for the PR

[marcus-h]

On 2021-03-03 17:10:44 -0800, Emily Gonyer wrote: Replacing gendered terms 'he', 'his', 'guy' and 'he/she' with 'they', 'their' and 'person'.

Maybe a completely stupid question from non-native speaker: why is a former singular pronoun switched to a plural one? For instance,

- # we don't need to show the requester if he is the same as the creator + # we don't need to show the requester if they are the same as the creator

I would have expected something like "we don't need to show the requester if it is the same as the creator". Mixing singular and plural sounds a bit "strange" (again, I'm not a native speaker:) ).

[dmarcoux]

@marcus-h It's not a stupid question 🙂

This Wikipedia article explains well the usage of they in singular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

[marcus-h]

On 2021-03-04 13:04:10 +0000, Dany Marcoux wrote: @marcus-h It's not a stupid question 🙂 This Wikipedia article explains well the usage of `they` in singular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Great article, thanks a lot! A stupid reader, like me, is probably confused when seeing the singular they for the first time but after reading the Wikipedia article they will get it;) (I hope, I used it correctly:) )

[dmarcoux]

There is no need to call yourself stupid, I also found it strange the first time! 🙂 English is also not my native language. I'm glad to know that the article helped.