cvs commit: www/en about.sgml

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 9 02:29:56 UTC 2006


On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 20:37:05 +0100
Daniel Gerzo <gerzo at micronet.sk> wrote:

> Hello Sirs,
> 
> Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 10:36:11 AM, was written:
> 
> > On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:11:06 +0100
> > Marc Fonvieille <blackend at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> >> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:33:30PM +0100, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> > 
> >> > Personally, I don't consider this as a real whitespace change. Since I
> >> > was touching this (and the only) line, where I have also edited its
> >> > content, I have also added a space after a full stop as FDP tells us.
> >> > I just wanted to fix two issues at one shot.
> >> >
> >> > Yes, about.sgml has many of "those" issues, but they should be fixed
> >> > and since I'm not going to do it at once, I prefer them to get fixed
> >> > step by step :-)
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> To know what is the concensus on this subject, please consult the CVS
> >> repo and freebsd-doc archives and check if we used to:
> >> - fix the full-stop thing;
> >> - mix whitespace and content commits (cause as I said in my previous
> >>   mail I'm talking about some recent commits mixing both whitespace and
> >>   content changes and not only this one).
> 
> > Yea, commits made to just mark up tags are bogus and time wasting.
> 
> > And I need to apologize for this stuff, I only glanced at Daniel's
> > diffs.  In honesty, I was paying more attention to my POSIX stuff
> > and the elections ending in an unbalanced and unfair aftermath.
> 
> > Note, I'm only apologizing for the mixed content/whitespace.
> 
> I have to say that the original diff approved by my mentors didn't
> include the whitespace fix (I have noticed it right before committing
> it) and _I_ alone decided to commit it with the "full stop" fix.
> 
> Anyway, I still think that this is not a real problem and I use to
> commit whitespace fixes separately to content changes. I don't
> consider this commit as a real whitespace and content change - It's on
> the same line and translators are easily able to find out what has
> been changed.
> 
> > Note again, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you.

Daniel, will you be on IRC tonight?  I'd like to discuss this
commit.

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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