From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332CC13877A for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:24:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58160E0C9B; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-f41.google.com (mail-oa0-f41.google.com [209.85.219.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51912E0C6D for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:24:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id j17so7449706oag.14 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:24:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=tKfJRMmMPnddo0JYWORAIoHiczhEaPozo90ku/8jBuc=; b=j31tbwpXvFwBYY8Pp+KxIQ/CJnMKgx+H9x/hvUpjShKpFjn0i4os5XqhTWbN3pkShJ WBNBFfsnySIL9L47eVl2T0rS03T3Xi/02bGj8OTbwwr7NepmVGzIWSqgNI0fn19nrvcq AGyLidTSdX6W99Pyt6NzyCprcTK3c1rfRRrvfGmfrYaf6LuwyPZvVvs8AEjnEkeK0LQZ wqXnKQaW4igAJMqcZ+baqlHWjcgoSNxFppqqZhz+qhmVvPOGjvoesvvPITTlYZwoFr5i ILKZlrI8i5kVrQSsSB3bTKXzsyMkFkh1ll8f6CxA6vASOtW8ameJgKZA9+6a8YsM5REf V57A== X-Received: by 10.182.111.229 with SMTP id il5mr5862128obb.3.1407860663119; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-187-91-128.tx.res.rr.com. [76.187.91.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id k9sm4631796obe.23.2014.08.12.09.24.21 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Sender: William Hubbs Received: (nullmailer pid 8278 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:24:20 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:24:20 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings Message-ID: <20140812162420.GA8106@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20140810152211.2cc5ae94@sf> <20140812014820.GA3086@linux1> <53E97502.40604@gentoo.org> <20140812024257.GA3262@linux1> <53EA0CC6.6050000@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Archives-Salt: fc3134ac-2352-4f01-b962-cd2d09bae699 X-Archives-Hash: 16ebc5a0d4efbd4b33e643f12002e05a --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:26:07AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: =20 *snip* > 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... =20 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 --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlPqP7QACgkQblQW9DDEZTj3TwCgscs/hAzkH1jBdk4ZX0aL1PMm IgMAnApx+MtRkZygYOtmyWuenz0mqA9R =8jbi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP--