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<p>Hi Eric,<br>
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<p>+1</p>
<p>Reading the discussion so far, I want to ask people to keep in
mind that Koha is a very international project. I only learned
about the use of they/them/their as singular neutral pronouns not
so long ago and I think for a lot of other non-native speakers it
might be similar. Our code comments are not perfect and we can
always improve, but please let's be nice about it. I'd rather have
a non-perfect code comment with imperfect grammar than people stop
commenting :)</p>
<p>Katrin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19.04.2017 02:25, Eric Phetteplace
wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Hi
list,</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I
opened bug #18432 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18432">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 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?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">So
here's my proposal. I'm trying to be concise.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>Use
gender neutral pronouns</b></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">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 neutral.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Before<b>:</b></div>
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</b></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">is(
$total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and
become a juvenile, he should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K +
$enrolmentfee_J ) );</font><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">After:</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">is(
$total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and
become a juvenile, they should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K +
$enrolmentfee_J ) );</font><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">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, leading someone
to believe that code operates differently based on the value
of borrowers.sex, for instance.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I
hope that's clear. I'm happy to reword it, and to attend the
next Koha developers meeting to explain further if need be.</div>
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<div><font face="georgia, serif">Eric
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