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Re: Debian New Maintainer Guide 0.1



In article <[🔎] 4.1.19981114210614.0093a390@mail.winternet.com>, Lyno Sullivan <lynosull@freedomain.org> writes:
> I would like to publicly apologize to Josip and then move on.  I
> reviewed his article and recommended that he change "guy" to
> "person".

> I merely wanted to mention that women who read Debian documents
> might be upset by being refered to as "guy".  Josip is not the only
> debian-docs person who has done this so I thought I should mention
> it in public.

Geeze, has it come to this?

I think's is perfectly reasonable to point out that "guy" might not be
the best form of address in documentation -- that seems self-evident
to me.

--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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