Replace instances of 'his/her' with 'their' #2934
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The his/her construct is, I'm sure we can all agree, nightmarish. It's awkward to read and it's almost impossible to speak aloud. It's also exclusionary and reinforces the idea of a first and second gender.
The contribution guidelines say that if it's anything but a typo, I should file a bug. In this case, it does appear that this is on the level of typo; there are currently no instances of 'he/she' or 'his/hers' in Django, and there are already a decent number of instances of singular 'they', so I'm confident this is not a policy issue. Just in case I'm wrong about that, though, here's a conservative hunt for some examples:
Sorry about the .po files; I couldn't find anything in https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/ about how to run makemessages against django itself.