From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 29 6:52:48 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6226E37B41C; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 06:52:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fATEqSp65986; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:52:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:52:28 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Mike Barcroft , Giorgos Keramidas , Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Committer's guide policy on commit message contents Message-ID: <20011129095228.A65873@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20011127163513.A12400@espresso.q9media.com> <20011128014533.GA14146@hades.hell.gr> <20011129104810.A74413@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011129002138.GA41626@hades.hell.gr> <20011128214501.D15672@espresso.q9media.com> <20011129123309.C19084@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011129123309.C19084@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:33:09PM +0000 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:33:09PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > I suggest we choose the British variants then. Does that seem like a > > silly thing to say? Indeed it does. > > Yay! Before I started actively submitting to the FAQ and Handbook, I sat down and read them both. The random whiplash between British and US spellings is actively painful to anyone with any literary sensibility. It's painful enough that, as a native American speaker, I don't care if the docs are in British. I don't care if some entire docs are in British and some entire docs are in American -- it would be simple enough to add a custom DocBook tag to the opening of each document to say, i.e., . I don't care if the docs all follow Mark Twain's famous "how to simplify English spelling" essay. Just pick something, pick anything, and stick to it in each individual document. The British spellings would present a certain level of, shall we say, "class." Our docproj lead is from Britain. And an ispell dictionary is available. I don't see any reason why not. (Of course, this has been a contentious issue for years, and I don't expect it to actually change.) ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message