When making changes, please try to use short lines of text (< 64
characters). This makes it easier to use 'diff' to see the
-differences. (See discussion in <http://bugs.debian.org/278267>)
+differences. (See discussion in <https://bugs.debian.org/278267>)
Do not commit patches to the developers reference yourself unless
authorized to do so. Patches need to be finalized and common opinion
SVN access for other reasons.
+* Writing style
+
+Please use gender-neutral formulations. This means avoiding
+pronouns like he/she when referring to a role (like "maintainer")
+whose gender is unknown. Instead of you should use the
+plural form (singular they [1]).
+
+[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
+
+
* SVN
If you're interested in ongoing maintenance, once you've shown that
This manual is a part of the Debian Documentation Project (DDP).
Information about SVN access for DDP can be found at
-<http://www.debian.org/doc/cvs>.
+<https://www.debian.org/doc/cvs>.
If you just want to check out the current SVN version of this
manual to create patches against, you can use the following
Feel free to truck stuff out of the English manual into common.ent if
it's useful, or else report the problem.
-The translation .po files are in po4a/fr/ and po4a/ja/ for French and
-Japanese. We hope very much for more translations.
+The translation PO files are in po4a/po/, we hope very much for more
+translations.