Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 23:42:06 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: James Raynard <fdocs@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: comment to keep developers list sorted? Message-ID: <19971206234206.43998@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <19971205230900.02550@jraynard.demon.co.uk>; from James Raynard on Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 11:09:00PM %2B0000 References: <19971205011952.39044@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <19971205230900.02550@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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James Raynard scribbled this message on Dec 5: > On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 01:19:52AM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > should we add a comment to contrib.sgml that says to keep the list > > sorted by last name? > > Seems reasonable. ok, I'll look at adding the comment in the near future..and commit it once we've ironed out how the sorting is suppose to be handled.. :) > > also, what is the sorting order of O'something names? we have an > > O'Brien that is sorted with the O's.. and we have a O'Callaghan sorted > > with the C's.. > > I don't know if the US uses the same convention, but the phone books here > sort names starting with an O' as if the apostrophe wasn't there, eg > > Oates > O'Callaghan > Ockham > O'Grady well.. the phone book for our area does it this way too... > Also, Mac and Mc are both sorted as if they were spelt Mac, eg > > McDonald > Machek > MacIlroy > McKenzie are sorted how they are spelled... hmm... we only have one person that has a mc/mac name, so why don't we delay this decision untill we got more of these names? :) so, if no one has any objections, I'll move O'Callaghan to be next to O'Brien which is already sorted this way... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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