[Bug-gnupress] What voice do we use?

[Paul A. Crable]

Forgive me if I am raising an issue that has already been resolved. I
am, after all, a newbie:

I've read through parts of the draft GCC manual and am not sure what
voice we have adopted. In some places the author is written in first
person plural  (we and us) while the reader is written in the second
person singular (you). At other times both the author and reader are
referred to in the  third person;  i.e., we refer to "the author" and
"the reader" and use third person pronouns (he or she, him or her) to
describe them both.

If the matter has not been resolved, I vote for the latter because it
seems to be the convention used in most well written manuals.
Furthermore, the former is a little too chatty and tends to
encourages critics in their belief that free software is amateur
software, in the worst sense of the term "amateur".

I can go either way, but I think we should all go the same way.

Paul