Team membership status change emails should be gender neutral

I suggest: "Jane Weideman (janew) changed his/her own membership in the Edubuntu Website (edubuntu-website) team from Approved to Deactivated."

(Amateur grammarians notwithstanding, them/their/they is English's usual gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun, e.g. "Someone changed their own membership" would be fine. But "Jane changed their own membership" seems much worse, perhaps because Jane is a real person with an obvious gender.)

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The upside of having forgotten that this bug was reported already was that I made a completely different -- and, I think, better -- suggestion in the duplicate bug 519100:

    Jane Weideman (janew) has left the team "Edubuntu Website" (edubuntu-website).

The membership status of Jane Weideman (janew) in the team Edubuntu
Website (edubuntu-website) was changed by the user from Approved
to Deactivated.

Just remove the "himself" and it works fine. I have just had an incorrectly gendered notification about a user, it is annoying.

On 30 December 2011 03:59, Alan Bell <email address hidden> wrote:
> The membership status of Jane Weideman (janew) in the team Edubuntu
> Website (edubuntu-website) was changed by the user from Approved
> to Deactivated.
>
> Just remove the "himself" and it works fine. I have just had an
> incorrectly gendered notification about a user, it is annoying.

Which "himself"?

I don't see that word in the text you quoted, or in any file in
lp/registry/emailtemplates.

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Martin

afaict this is already fixed

Its very much not fixed.

(I just got a mail notification for allison randall leaving a team that had 'himself' in the notification.

Fixed in stable r14730 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/14730>.