From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: rgm@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:13:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0806290313l1c002620k9c7763af30830519@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KCtZo-0002Zs-Mx@fencepost.gnu.org>
> 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
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2008-06-27 9:21 ` Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 9:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 9:50 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 10:56 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 11:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 12:01 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 13:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 18:14 ` Glenn Morris
2008-06-27 19:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 19:28 ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28 13:20 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-28 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-28 21:19 ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28 21:30 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-28 21:47 ` Juri Linkov
2008-06-28 22:45 ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-28 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29 9:52 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 10:13 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2008-06-29 11:06 ` Reiner Steib
2008-06-29 11:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-29 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29 19:53 ` Sam Steingold
2008-06-29 20:00 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 14:43 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-29 20:57 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-29 22:05 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-29 22:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-29 22:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30 5:25 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 7:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30 8:16 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 8:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-30 9:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 9:42 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 10:07 ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-30 12:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-01 11:06 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-01 11:12 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-01 12:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-01 7:36 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-01 12:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-01 14:10 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-06-27 9:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-27 10:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 10:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 10:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-27 12:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 12:30 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-27 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 12:52 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27 16:54 ` Agustin Martin
2008-06-28 2:01 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 13:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-28 1:02 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-28 1:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-06-28 1:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-30 13:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 13:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 13:39 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 13:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-30 14:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-06-30 18:23 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-06-30 18:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-30 20:32 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-07-01 1:04 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 15:38 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-27 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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