* Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings
@ 2014-08-12 16:24 99% ` William Hubbs
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From: William Hubbs @ 2014-08-12 16:24 UTC (permalink / raw
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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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