From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 16 3: 0:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC2337C065 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 03:00:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12VY0X-0006wt-00; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:00:01 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Sean Kelly" Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal re SGML style In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:36:05 PST." <00d101bf8edf$9ddbc460$24d39580@jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:00:00 +0200 Message-ID: <26713.953204400@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:36:05 PST, "Sean Kelly" wrote: > Seriously, I haven't written for the FreeBSD project in some time, so > whatever I say can't carry much weight. However, just let me play > advocatus diaboli for a moment. Actually, I found your argument very compelling. Thanks for taking the time to give me the feedback. I perceived my proposal as having two advantages; it would save work in the creation of changes _and_ in the review of those changes. Your argument basically suggests that the way I review changes is flawed. I got exactly the same comment from two others in private mail. I agree with you. This means that the actual value of the proposed style is not as great as my initial perceived value. So the unchallanged advantage of the proposal thus far is: 1) If whitespace changes are to remain separate from other changes, the proposed style will generally reduce the need for follow-up whitespace commits after other commits. 2) If whitespace changes may be mixed in with other changes, the proposed style only generally reduces the amount of reformatting required for paragraphs changed. Do you agree that the proposed style would reduce in this way, the work required to _create_ changes? Whether or not the saving is enough motivation to adopt this style is a different issue. For now, I'm just interested in hearing whether you think there's any merit in this at all, in case I've completely missed the boat. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message