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 18BCB13877A for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FC85E0A64; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3737FE09FF for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:36:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623A93402F4 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:36:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.832 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.832 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.462, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.668, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id S2NPplWzyFWw for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A9155340360 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XHbXG-00078c-TE for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:36:26 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:36:26 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:36:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20140810152211.2cc5ae94@sf> <20140812014820.GA3086@linux1> <20140813103845.045f2d70@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: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.140 (Chocolate Salty Balls; GIT d447f7c /m/p/portage/src/egit-src/pan2) X-Archives-Salt: 5f25f259-d786-4f47-b29c-7baa1a0da1b7 X-Archives-Hash: 7131750eea43b0f86836878839e799af Tom Wijsman posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:38:45 +0200 as excerpted: >> I don't recall a policy mandating that descriptions can't end with '.'. >> I asked our QA lead about it and was told that he didn't recall that we >> have an official policy about it either. Also, the devmanual never >> mentions any such requirement. > > It has been a common belief to drop '.' among some from what I've seen. [Observational/skippable.] FWIW, I've been watching this debate with some amusement, as I follow Language Log, which has a continuing serious covering the generational/ regional differences in period/full-stop interpretation. The first in the series and my favorite, due to the cartoon illustrating the issue (Nov. 2012): http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4304 Two newer installations of the series (Nov 2013 and Aug 1, 2014, respectively): http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=8667 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=13723 It can be a big deal for some. Quoting from the first comment on the first article (and noting that what we call a "period" US-English is a "full stop" in UK-English): Obviously, a period is a full stop, but, in short text messages, I feel like it almost SAYS full stop, with all the attendant emphasis of that phrase. "Best movie ever" is one thing, but "Best. Movie. Ever." is quite another. Back to gentoo and the current "Much ado about nothing". Someone's irritated with the periods/full-stops following short descriptions, because to him it's disruptive, almost as if an exclamation point (which I /would/ find disruptive) was used, such that for him a repoman check is warranted. But to many others, it's trivial, certainly nothing worth bothering with a repoman check and hundreds of individual fixes with concurrent changelog entries. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman