From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:13:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214734429 25066 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2008 10:13:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 29 12:14:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KCtvV-0004as-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:14:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41494 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCtuf-0003kv-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCtuK-0003jw-Vw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:13:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCtuH-0003jE-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47275 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCtuG-0003iz-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:13:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.176]:46287) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KCtuF-0004eP-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:13:15 -0400 Original-Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c21so448010ika.2 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:13:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=sbKu9QCMJaL0mOWJ7bT1bafbSTYEuKnsoyubmZU9OR0=; b=fCHvIv3ZyLDK/s5/erV6r+AbEt/bRMi0Yn4IDinLq+6gN0zDjnXetpYWuv429LfJSV jFA2GFrUi/J7LdZfa/qia6nw/izdDuOVqq5qz5SjK1VM6DHXl0KRxNcC92wEb5DtegIu HACO93VXCH3o9lcz3N0Oc8OhP6AKeAH9clAVE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=XHVDn59GrU0EhySDeoIMOoxf/Eq4EJAr6XVMk20z0Crhcz73Q2i/85MNGT/YykS+kJ cE48x83C/Jlpy+t6T3BDxdSLpIxYq4G3LKRqNPgx8ADbck5wx2PI/U8rjs3Wl0SByyTh d/QM3bkGHWTx8kGss6Fvm4P9vZ+YEAQmfLAWg= Original-Received: by 10.210.41.14 with SMTP id o14mr2965022ebo.137.1214734394578; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:13:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.71.14 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:13:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100130 Archived-At: > For consistency. Consistency looks good, both for maintainers > and (when visible to them) to the users. Once you quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson's "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" in this list, and (no offense intended) it seems appropriate now. Also, I agree with Miles: differences in spelling (in comments and ChangeLog entries) add flavo[u]r. 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. Juanma