Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:39:03 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: Committer's guide policy on commit message contents Message-ID: <XFMail.011129083903.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200111291552.fATFqaZ60469@green.bikeshed.org>
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On 29-Nov-01 Brian F. Feldman wrote: > Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> wrote: >> 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., <language_variant="british">. 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.) > > I just want to know: does this mean I'll get to spell "connection" with an > "x" :)? Seriously, though, I would vote that all documentation spelling > that's > actually in the en_US sections should really be in American English, and I > would prefer American English for the simple reason that it is what BSD > documentation has been written in historically. Note that I do not intend > to actually "vote" on this, of course. Yes, and we can have en_GB (or en_BR or whatever it's called) if we wish to have the British version as well. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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