Description of problem: Signing up for an account on openstack.redhat.com requires gender selection Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): N/A How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to sign up for an account 2. Get asked for gender Actual results: Gender is required, and not inclusive Expected results: - Don't ask for Gender (why is it needed?) - Or Gender selection is inclusive http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2012/06/how-can-i-make-the-gender-question-on-an-application-form-more-inclusive/ Additional info: See "Why does RDO care about my gender?" on memo-list
Reposting comment from mailing list thread: We don't care about your gender. We are using the upstream version of Vanilla, which includes this question by default. This explains why it's there. I'm happy to remove it - IIRC, there is even a ticket against that internally. The reality is that it was not a priority for the release, and we have not had a lot of time since then for issues such as this, which are prioritised below issues related to the user experience of people downloading and using RDO. The reason Vanilla asks the questions is to use the correct gender in some strings in the program ("he/she", "his/her") and to use the right gender suffix in localised versions where that's important. I have a patch to add "Unspecified" as an option, but we'll test that in staging before pushing it live.
Cool, thanks. Can you set the default on the sign up page to unspecified and then just hide the form? Unspecified isn't much of an improvement, calling it "Other" is better if you must ask (this is Google's solution) Don't meant to come off as being super pedantic, I just know people who these kinds of details do matter to them.
There will be repercussions - extra strings that will need translating, "they" and "their" instead of "him/her/his/her", but I guess we can live with those. Will report back when we test & push live. Dave.
This went live Sunday evening. Appears to be working. There was a hidden database change needed because of the extra member of the Gender enum - "update table GDN_User change column Gender Gender enum ('m', 'f', 'o') default 'o'" - and upstream appears to have moved to this kind of scheme in the latest devel branch, so there's no point proposing this as a patch to the stable branch. Closing as fixed.