From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 28 18:45:52 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3577C37B417; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:45:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAT2j1R20340; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:45:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:45:01 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Committer's guide policy on commit message contents Message-ID: <20011128214501.D15672@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20011127163513.A12400@espresso.q9media.com> <20011128014533.GA14146@hades.hell.gr> <20011129104810.A74413@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011129002138.GA41626@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011129002138.GA41626@hades.hell.gr>; from charon@labs.gr on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:21:38AM +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project 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 Giorgos Keramidas writes: > On 2001-11-29 10:48:10, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 3:45:33 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > Well, yes and no. I did learn a lot for -doc style from browsing the > > > logs in cvsweb a couple of years back. Changelogs like: > > > > > > Fix typo. > > > > > > are OK, but changes like: > > > > > > Fix typo: "rationalise" -> "rationalize". > > > > > > are VERY nicer. > > > > FWIW, this is the kind of change which shouldn't happen. > > "rationalise" is a perfectly valid spelling. Just because the > > Americans prefer "rationalize" is not a reason to change it, any more > > than there would be a reason for an Australian to change it back > > again. > > I know. Both spellings are valid. Still, it seems proper to choose > one of the two and stick with it, instead of alternating between the > two in the documentation. But I'm off on a tangent now... I suggest we choose the British variants then. Does that seem like a silly thing to say? Indeed it does. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message