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Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?
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Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:06:42 +0200 |
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On Sun, Jun 29 2008, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
>> For consistency. Consistency looks good, both for maintainers
>> and (when visible to them) to the users.
I don't care much about this issue, but when looking for a ChangeLog
entry or a comment, it is easier to search only for a single spelling
variant.
> Also, I agree with Miles: differences in spelling (in comments and
> ChangeLog entries) add flavo[u]r.
I'd guess it is much easier to unify the spelling globally than to
check if the location is user visible or not (comment vs. doc string,
etc.).
> Much better that fixing "initialise" in ChangeLog entries would be
> to fix bad grammar (there's a lot, and I know it firsthand because
> I've perpetrated a few instances myself), check for missing entries
> (there are a lot of these), duplicate entries, non-monotonic times
> (days or weeks apart, not just arising from time-zone differences),
> lots and lots of cases of using "wildcards" to refer to several
> variables (which is against our ChangeLog policies, AFAICS),
> etc. etc.
In contrast to s/initialise/initialize/g, this can't be done
automatically.
Bye, Reiner.
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- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, (continued)
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Jason Rumney, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Jason Rumney, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Miles Bader, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juri Linkov, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Jason Rumney, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?,
Reiner Steib <=
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Sam Steingold, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/30
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, David Kastrup, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/29