From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:24:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140812162420.GA8106@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_nBN7sjsJxa+72MY7VAt=AQ8UqvTRmD2cqr=RKeKDoFOg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:26:07AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
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> Yeah, at best this seems a bit trivial. Do we have a policy that
> descriptions aren't allowed to be complete sentences? Many of our
> developers are not native English speakers in the first place, so
> striving for grammatical perfection is a bit optimistic. On top of
> that, repoman certainly isn't a native English speaker, so expecting
> it to achieve grammatical perfection is a really tall order. And
> please don't suggest making languagetool a dependency for portage...
No, we do not have, and there has been no request for, a qa policy that
requires description to not end with a '.'. Also, it is not documented
in the devmanual. So, it appears that this warning was put in place
without involving the QA team at all.
William
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-10 12:22 [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings Sergei Trofimovich
2014-08-11 20:34 ` Bertrand Jacquin
2014-08-12 18:32 ` Michał Górny
2014-08-12 1:48 ` William Hubbs
2014-08-12 1:59 ` Manuel Rüger
2014-08-12 2:42 ` William Hubbs
2014-08-12 4:20 ` Tyler Pohl
2014-08-12 5:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2014-08-12 11:33 ` Alex Xu
2014-08-12 12:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " hasufell
2014-08-12 13:26 ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-12 14:26 ` hasufell
2014-08-12 16:24 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2014-08-12 18:37 ` Chris Reffett
2014-08-12 21:08 ` hasufell
2014-08-12 13:54 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-08-12 14:04 ` [gentoo-dev] repoman --nonag (was Re: gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings ) Ian Stakenvicius
2014-08-12 16:36 ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-12 16:57 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-08-12 17:08 ` hasufell
2014-08-12 17:13 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-08-12 17:25 ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-12 17:46 ` William Hubbs
2014-08-12 19:01 ` Michał Górny
2014-08-12 19:11 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-08-13 8:47 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-08-12 18:46 ` [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings Michał Górny
2014-08-18 14:10 ` Ben de Groot
2014-08-13 8:38 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-08-13 16:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2014-08-12 22:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alexander Berntsen
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