Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:16:56PM -0300, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > 
> > The whole developers-reference is written in a non-gender-neutral
> > manner. If there's consensus that it's a good idea, I would prefer
> > if the whole devref was converted at once, instead of converting
> > only this part.
> > 
> Any particular reason why it must be gender neutral?

The same reason it should be race-neutral; the use of gender-specific
language in reference to a person, when we can make no valid
assumption of their gender, is needlessly discriminatory.

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