From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Oct 8 6:34:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [209.98.143.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D1214D87 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 06:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from bone.nectar.com (bone.nectar.com [10.0.0.105]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C5DC006; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:34:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from bone.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bone.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 368B81D72; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:34:30 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-rsa.txt X-PGP-DSSfprint: AB2F 8D71 A4F4 467D 352E 8A41 5D79 22E4 71A2 8C73 X-PGP-DHfprint: 2D50 12E5 AB38 60BA AF4B 0778 7242 4460 1C32 F6B1 X-PGP-DH-DSSkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-dh-dss.txt From: Jacques Vidrine To: Bill Fumerola Cc: FreeBSD Documentation Project In-reply-to: References: Subject: Re: Style Challenge! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 08:34:30 -0500 Message-Id: <19991008133430.368B81D72@bone.nectar.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 7 October 1999 at 13:59, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Jacques Vidrine wrote: > > > Although I agree with Narvi that pure whitespace/formatting changes > > mostly just make it harder for the translators. Don't go around > > changing spaces after sentances unless you are already rewriting. > > No. This is completly ass-backwards. > > Make one commit to correct the formatting. > Make one commit to change the sentence. > > Try and be at least somewhat familiar with policy before making > these suggestions. Grouchy much, Bill? :-) I simply meant that rather than making a bunch of whitespace changes for the sake of it, wait until it has to be rewritten anyway. i.e. This paragraph has some incorrect information, as well as bad spacing after periods. It must be completely rewritten. I'm not talking about simple spelling changes and whatnot. to Here is the new paragraph, with updated information. The sentences are brand new. It would have been stupid to make two commits -- one to replace the paragraph, and one to s/.[ ]/.[ ][ ]/ the paragraph. Don't you agree? I don't think this is unreasonable. And I'm not saying ``mix formatting commits with content commits''. Relax. ;-) Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message