https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18432 Bug ID: 18432 Summary: Most code comments assume male gender Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 - low Component: Developer documentation Assignee: gmcharlt@gmail.com Reporter: ephetteplace@cca.edu QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org Throughout the Koha codebase, the pronoun "he" is used to refer to a generic third person who could be of any gender. For instance, in C4/Suggestions.pm line #66: 'When a librarian manages the suggestion, he can set the status to "REJECTED" or "ACCEPTED".' That assumes all librarians are male. It's particularly problematic given that, in the US at least, the profession is heavily female. In other files, all borrowers are assumed to be male. In the interest of making the code base more inclusive, it'd be better to not assume a male gender. The patch—which touches *a lot* of disparate files but almost only comments—changes all instances of "he" or "him" I could find to "he or she" and "him or her" respectively. I'd also be in support of singular "they"/"their" in these situations if people prefer that. In a few cases, a non-human object was being referred to as "he", so I used "it" instead. FYI, the regex I used to find uses of the pronoun "he" and "him": - / (H|h)e (?!or she)/ - / (H|h)im (?!or her)/ I ignored "docs/history.txt" and "misc/release_notes" since those seem to refer to actual men who worked on Koha, and also the Maori translations. There were 3 "unimarc_framework_DEFAULT.sql" files also used "he" in a way that seemed to refer to a particular individual, though I'm not sure. Testing plan: - I can't really formulate a "testing plan" for this patch since it shouldn't impact actual executing code - The patch does touch strings in a few tests so at the very least these should continue to pass: M C4/SIP/t/06patron_enable.t M koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/cataloguing/additem.tt M t/db_dependent/Circulation.t M t/db_dependent/Koha/Patrons.t M t/db_dependent/Reserves.t -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.