From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:05:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214777181 16488 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2008 22:06:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, eliz@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 00:07:05 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 1KD52v-0005Mt-6I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:06:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KD525-0001iD-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:06:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KD51b-0000xW-Lh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KD51a-0000uY-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33587 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KD51a-0000uD-D9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:44928) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KD51a-0008QP-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:05:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KD51M-0008AI-1Y; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:05:20 -0400 In-reply-to: (lekktu@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:100173 Archived-At: 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. Are you accusing me of being inconsistent, then ;-)? Often it is a mistake to sacrifice something else for consistency. But here there is no sacrifice. If Glenn wants to spend his time this way, why argue? 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. Please fix them if you can.