Bug 229836
| Summary: | Requiring gender-neutral greeting for user | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Satellite 5 | Reporter: | Máirín Duffy <duffy> |
| Component: | WebUI | Assignee: | Tomas Lestach <tlestach> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Jiří Mikulka <jmikulka> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 511 | CC: | cperry, inode0, jmikulka, msuchy, rhn-bugs |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened, Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-09-21 09:34:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 819081 | ||
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Description
Máirín Duffy
2007-02-23 18:42:49 UTC
Sr. is not gender specific (according to wikipedia) and Hr. is abbreviation of Herr. There is gender related Ms. which in German localization is translated to Fr. as Fraulin. So I would say we are gender correct. The only guestion is whether to remove Hr. or not as it is duplicate of Mr. But the removal is much harded (you must migrate existing data of customers) then to add something and IMO not worht the work. The real life situation that comes up is a request for an account comes in from someone, say for example named Pat Brown. The admin does not know if Pat is a male or a female. Do you really think Sr. is appropriate? The situation is worse with names which do reveal gender but which aren't familiar to the admin in which case bad guesses on the admin's part can be considered offensive to the person requesting the account. Imagine a English only speaking admin seeing 50 different Chinese names with which he/she is unfamiliar. In either of these cases what should the admin do? Take a gender specific guess and be wrong and offend users on occasion? Ask the user what their sex is before creating the account? (That would go over real well here.) Please reconsider as this has caused us problems for years and all we need is something that would be appropriate and gender neutral for cases where the gender of the user is unknown. Gender neutral? So you basicaly ask for empty field? - since currently you have to choose something. An empty field would be just fine. Having to basically guess either Mr. or Ms. and sometimes getting that wrong offends some people and embarrasses others and the field doesn't really seem very important to begin with. That sounds as plan. Reopening. commited to spacewalk.git as e8e83e3190072ca434bc02fae06d04db84b54f0d This issue is resolved with the release of RHN Satellite 5.5. As of September 20th 2012, RHN Satellite 5.5 has been generally available. Release Notes and other 5.5 documentation can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/ The associated Errata for the 5.5 release are: 5.5 Satellite GA Errata - http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-1296.html 5.5 Upgrade Errata - http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-1298.html 5.5 RHN Proxy GA Errata - http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-1297.html 5.5 RHN Tools GA Errata - http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-1299.html Regards, Clifford - Engineering Manager, Satellite |