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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:25:10 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org, Warren Block <wblock@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r39908 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxg=LN82Cj%2ByTsiBSxuah0BNJpt4QkybaxWvp2z_pqaom%2Bg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121102133403.GA1352@glenbarber.us>
References:  <201211020413.qA24DfDZ040748@svn.freebsd.org> <CAF6rxgm2fmD0uJJ419B4FY9=_FOmbHSHfphngkHCz8-2Coodog@mail.gmail.com> <20121102133403.GA1352@glenbarber.us>

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On 2 November 2012 09:34, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> My 2 cents on this is, and always has been, that people (new
> contributors, in particular) tend to use the existing markup as a
> template for reference on how the document should be formatted.  As
> such, correcting the existing, badly-formatted markup provides
> consistency to new contributors wanting to provide patches, but unsure
> of what the "proper style" for these documents is.

Makes sense and I completely agree: in fact my mentors already have
some giant-whitespace-cleanup patches from me.

I was asking about our policy - and it seems I have a good answer. :)


-- 
Eitan Adler
Source, Ports, Doc committer
Bugmeister, Ports Security teams



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