From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:16:12 +0200 Message-ID: <851w2f9w37.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85skuva3zx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214813809 26302 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2008 08:16:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:16:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 30 10:17:34 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 1KDEZo-0002Tj-9U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:17:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDEYx-0007NB-Ue for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:16:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDEYt-0007N6-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:16:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDEYr-0007Mr-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:16:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49363 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDEYr-0007Mo-KW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:16:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.43]:54677) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDEYh-0004UA-8E; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-06-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.18]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31852CAEE0; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:16:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.51]) by mail-in-06-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22D35BD79; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:16:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-001-092.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.1.92]) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53883249246; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:16:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 492FA1D1721A; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:16:13 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:48:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93/7407/Mon Jun 9 04:21:00 2008 on mail-in-11.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:100201 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:25, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Well, those authors are presumably reading the Emacs developer list when >> they are bothered about what happens "downstream" with their >> contribution. So they can speak up for themselves. >> >> There is no need to invent hypothetical people to complicate things. > > They have done, at least two of them; if you count me in, that's at > least three. I have seen no author state "Please don't change UK spellings in my contributions to US spellings". I have only seen general statements of the sort "some authors might like...". If we have authors in here, it would be helpful if they did not hide between general statements, but explain clearly why they themselves, for their own contributions, would prefer not to have them changed to make them consistent with the rest of Emacs. Maybe I am dense, but all I have seen up to now were _suggestions_ about what _might_ make people prefer to have their DOC strings stay the way they are. The downside is there: it makes it harder to find stuff. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum