<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px">+1 :D<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492591808656_21215"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492591808656_21237"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492591808656_21241" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492591808656_21240"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492591808656_21239"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492591808656_21238"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492591808656_21242" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Eric Phetteplace <ephetteplace@cca.edu> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 19, 2017 3:23 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Koha-devel] Gender-neutral pronouns<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492591808656_21243"><br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492591808656_21244">Hi Eric,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Eric Phetteplace writes:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Hi list,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I opened bug #18432 <a shape="rect" href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18432" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492591808656_21245">https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18432 </a>because I saw several places in the Koha codebase where the pronoun "he" was being used to refer to a generic third person who could be of any<br clear="none">> gender. Jonathan Druart noted that this should be a coding guideline, as otherwise new instances of gendered pronouns might continue to be added. Perhaps it belongs on the "Terminology" page of the wiki?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> So here's my proposal. I'm trying to be concise.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> ----<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Use gender neutral pronouns<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> When referring to a person who could be of any gender, you should use the words they/them/their. This goes for code comments, text in templates, and strings in tests. For example, here's a string from a patrons test updated to be gender<br clear="none">> neutral.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Before:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become a juvenile, he should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) );<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> After:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become a juvenile, they should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) );<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Gender neutral terms are preferable for a few reasons. They're more welcoming, showing that Koha expects users and contributors to be of any gender. They're also more accurate. Inappropriately using a particular gender can cause confusion,<br clear="none">> leading someone to believe that code operates differently based on the value of borrowers.sex, for instance.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> ----<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I like the proposal, thanks for putting it together!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best wishes,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Alex<div class="yqt9744862243" id="yqtfd56052"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Koha-devel mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org" href="mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org">Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel</a><br clear="none">website : <a shape="rect" href="http://www.koha-community.org/" target="_blank">http://www.koha-community.org/</a><br clear="none">git : <a shape="rect" href="http://git.koha-community.org/" target="_blank">http://git.koha-community.org/</a><br clear="none">bugs : <a shape="rect" href="http://bugs.koha-community.org/" target="_blank">http://bugs.koha-community.org/</a><br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>