From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: Definite article in synopsis Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 06:53:23 +0200 Message-ID: <20160923045323.GB23992@jocasta.intra> References: <20160921105951.GA22975@jocasta.intra> <20160923001551.GE12170@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rJwd6BRFiFCcLxzm" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35291) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnIUO-0000Fp-K3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:53:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnIUJ-00026z-8X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:53:31 -0400 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:56691 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnIUJ-00026v-0J for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:53:27 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160923001551.GE12170@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --rJwd6BRFiFCcLxzm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 08:15:51PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:59:51PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > I thought we had a policy that the synopsis field must not=20 > start with an article. =20 >=20 > However running=20 > grep 'synopsis *"The' *.scm >=20 > shows that we have many instances where this policy is > not followed. >=20 > Or have I misunderstood something? =20 If the change is made, I'd prefer it on core-updates. Merging master into core-updates and vice versa already requires somebody to resolve a lot of merge conflicts. I'd rather not add to that burden. I don't follow the reasoning. Makeing such a change on core-updates instea= d of master would only make the merge effort worse. J' --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --rJwd6BRFiFCcLxzm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlfktUMACgkQimdxnC3oJ7Ob1ACeMNB3PGtMVIcsKBWi1Le5YJo2 Ic0An2XJ+65sDDjgRRPjmaqH1piDaBjg =997J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rJwd6BRFiFCcLxzm--