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From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding M-x iwconfig to net-utils.el
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:01:19 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080212000119.3B66730435@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hoprv5zd69.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:46:22 -0500)

   >     PS. It's funny how people often switch to the past tense when
   >     writing certain ChangeLog entries (eg: "rename", "move").
   >
   > I have always used "deleted" and "renamed", past tense.

   I could have sworn there was a GNU or Emacs standard that said
   "write changelog entries in the present tense", but now that I look
   I can't find it. :(

I seem to recall something similar, but neither the GNU Coding
Standards nor the much pickier GNITS standards say anything about it!




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-12  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-07 13:55 Adding M-x iwconfig to net-utils.el Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-08  2:43 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-08  4:21   ` Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-08  4:27     ` Miles Bader
2008-02-08  4:42       ` Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-08 18:48     ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-09  1:34       ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-09  1:43         ` Miles Bader
2008-02-09  2:19           ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-09  2:39           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-09  2:42             ` Miles Bader
2008-02-09  3:16             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-09 15:06             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-10  3:20         ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-10  3:46           ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-12  0:01             ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2008-02-10  9:19           ` David Kastrup

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