From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 5 23:23:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 915F5106566C; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:23:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mx0.deglitch.com (backbone.deglitch.com [IPv6:2001:16d8:fffb:4::abba]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E218FC14; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:23:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orion.SpringDaemons.com (adsl-99-48-191-9.dsl.snfc21.sbcglobal.net [99.48.191.9]) by mx0.deglitch.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3F9368FC51; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 02:23:15 +0300 (MSK) Received: from orion (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.SpringDaemons.com (Postfix) with SMTP id AA4AA39C24; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:23:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:23:00 -0800 From: Stanislav Sedov To: Doug Barton Message-Id: <20100105152300.eb7a66d1.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4B4384E3.2080600@FreeBSD.org> References: <201001040916.o049GZ1Y013061@svn.freebsd.org> <4B4384E3.2080600@FreeBSD.org> Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-Mailer: carrier-pigeon Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r201477 - head/games/fortune/datfiles X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:23:17 -0000 On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:28:51 -0800 Doug Barton mentioned: > First off, thanks for sorting these, that's a step in the right > direction. :) However, a few quibbles. First, our rule is that > anything which might offend someone belongs in fortunes-o, and > political quotes are always in the category of "might offend someone." > (FWIW, neither of these are offensive to me, I'm just pointing out the > general procedure.) > > Second, while it's clear at this point in time who these people are, > and what the context is, read through the fortune files sometime and > try to place who some of the people referenced are, when the quote was > relevant, etc. At minimum the quotes should be dated (IMO). > > Finally, let's pretend for a second that this is an international > project, and not assume that titles like "defense secretary" are > meaningful everywhere. :) > > Oh, and in the Rumsfeld quote you have "there're" twice, and in the > actual quote it's spelled out both times, "there are." > > I would change the citation in the first quote to read: > > -- United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld > 12 February 2002 > Personally I don't see the need to mention the context, but if you do > you could add "... 2002, On the invasion of Iraq" > > For the second, you could do something like: > > -- Daniel Fass, Chairman of United States President > Barack Obama's financial-industry fundraising party > I'll leave finding a date for that quote up to you. :) > Thanks for suggestions! What's regarding the "there're" spelling --- I'm not sure what the correct version is: I took this quote from the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, and it saved the original spelling. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE