From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jan 28 8:37:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B9A37B411; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:37:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust47.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0F843F43; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:37:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.12) id 18dYjq-0002Sk-00; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:37:30 +0000 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:37:30 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Marc Fonvieille Cc: Christian Brueffer , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: contributors article patch for review Message-ID: <20030128163730.GC8835@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Marc Fonvieille , Christian Brueffer , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030119163653.GW2568@unixpages.org> <20030119222730.GX2568@unixpages.org> <20030127222423.GL54604@unixpages.org> <20030127232731.GF569@nosferatu.blackend.org> <20030128065123.GN54604@unixpages.org> <20030128105445.A8854@abigail.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030128105445.A8854@abigail.blackend.org> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. X-message-flag-attribution: suresh, sdm. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:54:45AM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:51:23AM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote: > > > > This isn't mandatory, and it doesn't bring anything to the reader. > > > > On the other hand this change would make all entries consistent and > > therefore help people who are working on it. > > I think that's a good thing to help the contributors article to stay > > in a good state. > > I'm working on it at the moment, and it's plain annoying that some > > entries do this, some do that. > > Annoying? It's a normal "behavior". This file is not updated every > hours, and I do not think it's really painful to add an entry. > From my point of view, more important things have to be done before > spending time on changes like this one. Even so, whitespace in documents should be consistent. The entire doc tree could do with similar changes - the FAQ in particular is in particulary bad shape w.r.t. whitespace. Ceri -- My shield seeks your devastation! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message