[Koha-devel] Gender-neutral pronouns
Katrin
katrin.fischer.83 at web.de
Wed Apr 19 21:47:23 CEST 2017
Hi Eric,
+1
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 :)
Katrin
On 19.04.2017 02:25, Eric Phetteplace wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I opened bug #18432
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18432
> 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?
>
> So here's my proposal. I'm trying to be concise.
>
> ----
>
> *Use gender neutral pronouns*
> *
> *
> 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.
>
> Before*:*
> *
> *
> is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become
> a juvenile, he should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) );
>
> After:
>
> is( $total, $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J, "Kid growing and become
> a juvenile, they should pay " . ( $enrolmentfee_K + $enrolmentfee_J ) );
>
> 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.
>
> ----
>
> 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.
>
> Best,
> Eric Phetteplace
> Systems Librarian
> California College of the Arts
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>
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