Description of problem: Sat & Hosted When a system administrator creates a sub-account under their org using the Users UI in RHN, they need to choose from a selection of gender-specific greetings. The sysadmin might not actually know the person in question and may not be sure of the user's gender (or preferred gender). Just a small suggestion here to add a N/A option to the 'greetings' drop down when creating new user accounts. Also a note that 'Hr.' and 'Sr.' are inexplicably in the list of greetings. This is also the case for www in prod. Are these gender neutral? If not, we should consider either adding the analogous female greetings, or taking them out entirely and allowing localization to handle the available greetings. If there are SSO-dependencies/etc relating to this bug in hosted, let me know and I can file it under SSO as well.
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.
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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