Please see the IESG Statement on Inclusive Language, which documents the current IETF community consensus on encouraging to use the guidance in NISTIR 8366 when making contributions to the IETF.
This repo contains a configuration file for in-solidarity-bot that flags some of the terms in the NIST Technical Series Publications Author Instructions in new commits and pull requests.
If you want to use this configuration, you will of course need to install and enable the in-solidarity-bot for your repo or organization, so do that first by clicking "Configure" on this page and then enabling the bot accordingly.
After enabling in-solidarity-bot, execute these shell commands at the top-level directory of the target repo:
mkdir .github
echo "_extends: ietf/terminology" > .github/in-solidarity.yml
git add .github/in-solidarity.yml
git commit -m "Add in-solidarity-bot config"This will create and commit a .github/in-solidarity.yml file that uses the
configuration provided in this repo to check future commits and pull requests in
your repo.
Please note that there will be false positives due to the use of regular expressions for the checks.