From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-04-08
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:05:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21304.16604.874627.834786@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
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>>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2014, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Proposal 2
> "Whenever practical developers are required to use unit prefixes
> defined in IEC 80000-13 (KB, KiB, etc) so that output is unambiguous.
> This does not require maintainers to patch upstream code to change its
> behavior, but they should be applied with code that originates in
> Gentoo."
> This takes no stance on whether 1000 vs 1024 is preferred but still
> requires the new-style prefixes to remove ambiguity. I strongly
> advocate that using "KB" to refer to 1024 bytes is a recipe for
> confusion, if only because everybody who attends a decent school comes
> out indoctrinated that kilo means something else.
+1
(Should be lower case k for kilo though, i.e. "kB" for 1000 bytes and
"KiB" for 1024 bytes.)
Ulrich
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Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-27 13:40 [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-04-08 Anthony G. Basile
2014-03-29 12:50 ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-03-29 13:26 ` hasufell
2014-03-29 13:29 ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-03-29 13:49 ` hasufell
2014-03-29 14:17 ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-03-29 13:30 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-03-29 14:07 ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-03-29 14:36 ` William Hubbs
2014-03-29 19:46 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-29 23:12 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2014-03-30 0:37 ` William Hubbs
2014-03-30 1:35 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-30 2:20 ` William Hubbs
2014-03-30 2:33 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-30 11:00 ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-03-30 11:22 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-03-30 11:32 ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-03-30 15:14 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-03-30 13:51 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-30 12:22 ` hasufell
2014-03-30 15:09 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2014-03-31 16:00 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-03-31 23:46 ` Patrick Lauer
2014-03-30 8:33 ` Michał Górny
2014-03-30 8:43 ` Patrick Lauer
2014-03-30 11:52 ` Michał Górny
2014-03-30 14:07 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-30 16:05 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2014-03-30 16:27 ` Michał Górny
2014-04-01 11:46 ` Ruud Koolen
2014-03-30 9:23 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-30 13:56 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-03-30 15:47 ` Michał Górny
2014-03-30 23:05 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-03-30 23:43 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-31 3:13 ` Richard Yao
2014-03-31 6:07 ` Michał Górny
2014-03-31 10:56 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-03-31 15:44 ` Michał Górny
2014-03-31 17:27 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-31 17:56 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-03-31 18:12 ` Douglas James Dunn
2014-04-01 0:20 ` William Hubbs
2014-04-01 6:32 ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-03-31 15:58 ` Brian Dolbec
2014-03-31 16:19 ` [semi-OT] " Andreas K. Huettel
2014-03-30 15:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-03-30 16:27 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-30 16:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-03-30 16:39 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-30 16:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-03-30 16:59 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-30 17:01 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-30 17:05 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-03-30 16:40 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-30 23:44 ` Douglas James Dunn
2014-03-30 23:54 ` Rich Freeman
2014-03-30 23:59 ` Douglas Dunn
2014-03-31 0:24 ` Douglas Dunn
2014-03-30 23:47 ` Denis Dupeyron
2014-04-06 12:34 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2014-04-06 12:47 ` hasufell
2014-04-06 12:52 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-04-06 12:53 ` hasufell
2014-04-06 15:10 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-04-06 15:29 ` Alexander Berntsen
2014-04-06 16:17 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-06 17:01 ` hasufell
2014-04-06 17:03 ` Rich Freeman
2014-04-06 17:22 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-06 17:48 ` hasufell
2014-04-06 18:19 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-07 15:08 ` hasufell
2014-04-07 16:46 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-06 20:02 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2014-04-06 17:02 ` Rich Freeman
2014-04-06 21:22 ` Pacho Ramos
2014-04-07 11:36 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-07 11:49 ` Rich Freeman
2014-04-07 12:36 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-07 12:44 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-04-07 12:58 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-07 13:30 ` Rich Freeman
2014-04-07 15:09 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-07 16:36 ` Chris Reffett
2014-04-07 18:25 ` Rich Freeman
2014-04-07 18:45 ` hasufell
2014-04-07 20:06 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-07 20:01 ` Pacho Ramos
2014-04-07 14:52 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-04-07 15:30 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-06 15:31 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-04-06 15:30 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-04-06 15:44 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-04-06 16:30 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-06 16:19 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-06 16:09 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-06 21:25 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-04-06 21:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-04-07 8:00 ` Patrick Lauer
2014-04-07 14:51 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-04-07 15:38 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-07 18:42 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-04-06 17:33 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2014-04-07 5:47 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-04-07 11:51 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-07 7:49 ` Patrick Lauer
2014-04-07 8:02 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-04-07 8:26 ` Patrick Lauer
2014-04-07 11:54 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-04-07 12:48 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-04-07 14:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-04-07 14:58 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-04-07 15:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-04-08 0:37 ` Patrick Lauer
2014-04-08 4:32 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-04-07 14:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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