From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 13 19:16:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org 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 0320816A44A; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:16:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB0C43D55; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:16:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1DJGr6x072039; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:16:53 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:16:53 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: "Simon L. Nielsen" In-Reply-To: <20060213124351.GB896@zaphod.nitro.dk> Message-ID: <20060213221433.F33283@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20060213152314.B14115@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060213124351.GB896@zaphod.nitro.dk> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:16:53 +0300 (MSK) Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook whitespace cleanup X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:16:56 -0000 On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: SLN> On 2006.02.13 15:25:24 +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: SLN> SLN> > I think at least largest chapters (e.g., 300+ lines with whitespace changes) SLN> > should be cleaned up. Any objections (besides well-known issue with screen SLN> > and programlisting contents where should be no tabs)? SLN> SLN> My position is the same as I have said before, I think whitespace SLN> changes for the sake of whitespaces changes is a bad idea, since the SLN> added pain is greater than the gain. Also, if whitespace changes are SLN> to be done in sweep the chapters should be completely fixed including SLN> indentation, line breaks etc. since the pain will be the same. Pain SLN> in this case is all the uncommitted changes which will be nuked and SLN> cvs annotate which will be more difficult to use. Yes, I've got your point and after a bit of thinking fully agree. Fortunately most of my whitespace cleanup for serialcomms chapter come from one large commit, so it's unlikely make [new] pain for other developers. Thanks. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------