question

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
> Hello doc,
> 
>   I would like to make the
>   "../../../../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/policies.html"
>   found in fourth rule of
>   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/rules.html
>   to look like http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/.... Any objections?

+1 on this change.  I think this would be a good thing.  You probably
know there are some SGML entities to help out with this.

>   Also, I have a question regarding to this sentence (5th rule):
> 
>   "If the change turns out to be the best thing after all, it can be
>   easily brought back. If it turns out not to be, then the users did
>   not have to live with the bogus change in the tree while everyone
>   was busily debating its merits. People very very rarely call for
>                                          ^^--
>   back-outs in the repository since discussion generally exposes bad
>   or controversial changes before the commit even happens, but on such
>   rare occasions the back-out should be done without argument so that
>   we can get immediately on to the topic of figuring out whether it was
>   bogus or not."
> 
>   I'm not sure about the double "very" there. What do you think? If
>   this is intentional, shouldn't be there at least comma between
>   them?

The double "very" is used to indicate emphasis.  I presume it's
intentional, since I've seen it used in other places, although I tend
not to use it in my own writing.  I guess I prefer to emphasize using
means other than repeating words (unless I'm being sarcastic or silly).
 Not sure how it should be punctuated.

Cheers,

Bruce.


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