On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Charles Plessy wrote:
> before it is too late. I also would like to add that it is a bit of a slippery
> slope to use "seconded" statements as votes instead of indications that the
> discussion has ended on a conclusion, as it is done with the Policy, where this
> method originates.
FWIW, I applied the patch because I also did my own research some times
ago when I decided of some style guidelines for the Debian Administrator
Handbook (mostly following the Chicago Manual of Style). And I came to the
same conclusion.
And I got similar advice from a friend who's teaching English in France.
> singular they. I think that therefore it is a matter of choice and the
> important is to be consistent across the document, so please mention somewhere
> what standard the Developers Reference is following.
Added a sentence in README-contrib.
Cheers,
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