From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Definite article in synopsis
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:59:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160921105951.GA22975@jocasta.intra> (raw)
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I thought we had a policy that the synopsis field must not
start with an article.
However running
grep 'synopsis *"The' *.scm
shows that we have many instances where this policy is
not followed.
Or have I misunderstood something?
J'
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next reply other threads:[~2016-09-21 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-21 10:59 John Darrington [this message]
2016-09-23 0:15 ` Definite article in synopsis Leo Famulari
2016-09-23 0:32 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-09-23 5:10 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-24 2:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-24 2:53 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-23 4:53 ` John Darrington
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