[Koha-devel] Gender-neutral pronouns

[Katrin]

Hi Eric,

thx for writing this up! I have added your draft to the agenda of the 
next dev meeting:

https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_10_May_2017

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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