From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:34:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB9SyzSd=J6jC15jp6s1TzKBk_OJK5FX5RDOc5cO3kbjFDWsoA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350673317.12879.30.camel@belkin4>
On 20 October 2012 03:01, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hello
>
> At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would
> you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman
> warning?
In English, phrases don't end with a full stop. As has been argued
elsewhere in this thread, using full stops (periods, dots) is
unnecessary, redundant, and ugly.
It is my professional opinion, as an English teacher, that we should
*never* use full stops in DESCRIPTION fields.
If we are to use a repoman warning, we should encourage people to NOT
use a full stop at the end of their description phrases. Also, the
package name should not be repeated as part of the description.
--
Cheers,
Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-21 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-19 19:01 [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "." Pacho Ramos
2012-10-19 19:27 ` Doug Goldstein
2012-10-19 19:36 ` Thomas Sachau
2012-10-19 21:25 ` vivo75
2012-10-20 10:09 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-10-20 16:51 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-10-19 20:17 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-10-19 20:37 ` Michał Górny
2012-10-19 22:37 ` Rich Freeman
2012-10-20 6:09 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-20 14:27 ` Peter Stuge
2012-10-20 14:32 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-20 16:14 ` Michał Górny
2012-10-20 10:12 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-10-21 1:34 ` Ben de Groot [this message]
2012-10-21 6:37 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-21 4:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2012-10-22 4:42 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-10-30 7:18 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
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