Documentation: Add section on inclusive language.

As a community we should strive to be inclusive.
As such it seems appropriate to adopt an word list,
to help guide the use of inclusive language.

This patch proposes use of the Inclusive Naming Word List v1.0.

Link: https://inclusivenaming.org/word-lists/
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>

Documentation/automake.mk

@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ DOC_SOURCE = \
 	Documentation/internals/security.rst \
 	Documentation/internals/contributing/index.rst \
 	Documentation/internals/contributing/backporting-patches.rst \
+	Documentation/internals/contributing/inclusive-language.rst \
 	Documentation/internals/contributing/coding-style.rst \
 	Documentation/internals/contributing/coding-style-windows.rst \
 	Documentation/internals/contributing/documentation-style.rst \

Documentation/index.rst

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Contributing
 
     - :doc:`internals/contributing/submitting-patches`
     - :doc:`internals/contributing/backporting-patches`
+    - :doc:`internals/contributing/inclusive-language`
     - :doc:`internals/contributing/coding-style`
     - :doc:`internals/contributing/coding-style-windows`
 

Documentation/internals/contributing/inclusive-language.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+..
+      Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+      not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+      a copy of the License at
+
+          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+      Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+      distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+      WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+      License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+      under the License.
+
+      Convention for heading levels in Open vSwitch documentation:
+
+      =======  Heading 0 (reserved for the title in a document)
+      -------  Heading 1
+      ~~~~~~~  Heading 2
+      +++++++  Heading 3
+      '''''''  Heading 4
+
+      Avoid deeper levels because they do not render well.
+
+==================
+Inclusive Language
+==================
+
+In order to help facilitate an inclusive environment in the Open vSwitch
+community we recognise the role of language in framing our
+communication with each other. It is important that terms that
+may exclude people through racial, cultural or other bias, are avoided
+as they may make people feel excluded.
+
+We recognise that this is subjective, and to some extent is a journey.
+But we also recognise that we cannot begin that journey without taking
+positive action. To this end Open vSwitch is adopting the practice
+of an inclusive word list, which helps to guide the use of language within
+the project.
+
+.. _word list:
+
+Word List
+---------
+
+The intent of this document is to formally document the acceptance of a
+inclusive word list by Open vSwitch.  Accordingly, this document specifies
+use of the use the `Inclusive Naming Word List
+<https://inclusivenaming.org/word-lists/>`__ v1.0 (the word list) for Open
+vSwitch.
+
+The adoption of the word list intended that this act as a guide for
+developers creating patches to the Open vSwitch repository, including both
+source code and documentation. And to aid maintainers in their role of
+shepherding changes into the repository.
+
+Further steps to align usage of language in Open vSwitch, including
+clarification of application of the word list, to new and existing work,
+may follow.

Documentation/internals/contributing/index.rst

@@ -35,4 +35,5 @@ The below guides provide information on contributing to Open vSwitch itself.
    coding-style
    coding-style-windows
    documentation-style
+   inclusive-language
    libopenvswitch-abi