From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 16:43:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <164484721900.31751.1453162457552427931@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220214140020.04438C00891@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87bkqmqpvb.fsf@posteo.net> <871qris3xb.fsf@gnus.org> <877d1aqoc1.fsf@posteo.net> <87edvhqdrb.fsf@gnus.org> <871qrh2hh6.fsf@posteo.net> <87mta5oyec.fsf@gnus.org> <87sfjx10x1.fsf@posteo.net> <875ygsp0ng.fsf@gnus.org> <87h70c9bu4.fsf@posteo.net> <874jw73cjy.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26191"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 15 22:47:36 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ojo4G-0006bs-KU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2022 22:47:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37740 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ojo4F-0006LT-5Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2022 16:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ojo0S-0001ze-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2022 16:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45564) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ojo0R-0005fv-Ty; Sat, 15 Oct 2022 16:43:39 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=qk9OhBJV6wQw5kiVCJxi83/t0cjnL7pk4OKqeUI9g0I=; b=RH8KJZIpkCRU igIyQr26tWAOJ027vpfmlvIQ5nf9p+3bJZp/KbPBfxJUp+L47W5Ia5/ushtvIR8c66VD6eIV4i9IO y0srPu49fyJky8Pyvmg7u1M9nqw7p4wUybNTX8c979KQKkqAz5g468Wg1gK4NBjSPq7XC1zE2WAli jzJUwgN5pjrK5RXrKs55HdBlbu96YCvSTf5RJcpZFWwtDkuYDHbSa3opMowUiOyCjXN9dZJHXYbZq SiQLrQKxEUkgmfF/HML5ExbQGqJe7Ld0k36rJSq+fwsG347/unpwn1u2FDEZ+X3l+1+rijXdpJlD6 J/Inh3Jpi7KIK7HWn7Ozew==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ojo0R-0004lq-69; Sat, 15 Oct 2022 16:43:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874jw73cjy.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:37:05 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:297817 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The proposed manual text includes several sentences which use passive voice and would be shorter in active voice. Occasionally the use of passive voice is best approach, but usually not, so please try making them active and see if that makes the text more readable. Please don't refer to a maintainer, singular, as "them". There are many other ways to write that sentence, and some don't use a pronoun at all. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)