Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-05 Thread Tobias Toedter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 05 August 2004 04:48, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:02:05PM +0200, Tobias Toedter wrote: > > First of all, thank you for this effort. However, English is not my > > first language, that's why I wonder if it's common to us

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:26:29PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004, Tobias Toedter wrote: > > >"This is to prevent the Project Secretary from missing a proposal > > >in the huge volumes of mail generated on some of our lists and t

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-04 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:26:29PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004, Tobias Toedter wrote: > >"This is to prevent the Project Secretary from missing a proposal > >in the huge volumes of mail generated on some of our lists and to > >prevent them from having to subscribe

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:02:05PM +0200, Tobias Toedter wrote: > On Wednesday 04 August 2004 00:59, Matt Kraai wrote: > > I've fixed the incorrect usages in the pages you listed (except > > for one in a DPL candidate's platform). It would be helpful if > > someone checked the rest of the site. >

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004, Tobias Toedter wrote: >"This is to prevent the Project Secretary from missing a proposal >in the huge volumes of mail generated on some of our lists and to >prevent them from having to subscribe to each and every list >created by the Project." > > The Project S

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-04 Thread Tobias Toedter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 August 2004 00:59, Matt Kraai wrote: > I've fixed the incorrect usages in the pages you listed (except > for one in a DPL candidate's platform). It would be helpful if > someone checked the rest of the site. First of all, thank you fo

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-03 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:58:50PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > In order to fix the other problems, it would be very helpful if > > someone would run > > > > grep -Erw '(he|him|his)' english > > > > in a webwml checkout and send either a patch or a list of

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-03 Thread Luk Claes
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Matt Kraai wrote: > In order to fix the other problems, it would be very helpful if > someone would run > > grep -Erw '(he|him|his)' english > > in a webwml checkout and send either a patch or a list of pages > that should be fixed to this bug. Attached you can find the outpu

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-02 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:55:13PM -0400, reisio wrote: > IMO he/she & him/her is silly. If someone wants to take time to make it > all completely unspecific (eg. "they", etc) kudos; otherwise I think > you're being paranoid. I also prefer "they" to "he/she", but it's not being paranoid to requ

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-02 Thread Matt Kraai
clone 263084 -1 reassign -1 developers-reference thanks On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:42:56PM +0100, Helen Faulkner wrote: > This bug reports a problem with content on the website. It was > suggested that I file it against www.debian.org, but if there is an > actual different package name for the

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2004-08-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > clone 263084 -1 Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages Bug 263084 cloned as bug 263114. > reassign -1 developers-reference Bug#263114: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages Bug reassigne

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-02 Thread George Wright
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 00:55, reisio wrote: > IMO he/she & him/her is silly. If someone wants to take time to make it > all completely unspecific (eg. "they", etc) kudos; otherwise I think > you're being paranoid. > Helen Faulkner wrote: Um... a) pls don't top post b) language *means* something

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-02 Thread reisio
IMO he/she & him/her is silly. If someone wants to take time to make it all completely unspecific (eg. "they", etc) kudos; otherwise I think you're being paranoid. Helen Faulkner wrote: Package: www.debian.org This bug reports a problem with content on the website. It was suggested that I

Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages

2004-08-02 Thread Helen Faulkner
Package: www.debian.org This bug reports a problem with content on the website. It was suggested that I file it against www.debian.org, but if there is an actual different package name for the website (I couldn't find one), please file this bug against that. I have noticed some examples of