svn commit: r42086 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide

Warren Block wblock at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jun 29 22:59:49 UTC 2013


Author: wblock
Date: Sat Jun 29 22:59:48 2013
New Revision: 42086
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42086

Log:
  Fix wording errors, title capitalization, remove some outdated
  CVS-specific notes.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml	Sat Jun 29 14:26:29 2013	(r42085)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml	Sat Jun 29 22:59:48 2013	(r42086)
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
       of the tree where the work is occurring.</para>
 
     <sect2>
-      <title>Policy for <filename>doc/</filename> committer activity
+      <title>Policy for <filename>doc/</filename> Committer Activity
         in <filename>src/</filename></title>
 
       <itemizedlist>
@@ -532,16 +532,16 @@
 	  Layout</title>
 
 	<para>In <literal>svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/doc</literal>,
-	  <emphasis>doc</emphasis> refers repository root of the
+	  <emphasis>doc</emphasis> refers to the repository root of the
 	  source tree.</para>
 
 	<para>In general, most &os; Documentation Project work will be
 	  done within the <filename>head/</filename> branch of the
-	  source tree.</para>
+	  documentation source tree.</para>
 
 	<para>&os; documentation is written and/or translated to
-	  various languages, each of which within a separate
-	  directory within the <filename>head/</filename>
+	  various languages, each in a separate
+	  directory in the <filename>head/</filename>
 	  branch.</para>
 
 	<para>Each translation set contains several subdirectories for
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@
 	      ports tree specific version</ulink>)
 	    and add it to <filename>~/.subversion/config</filename>
 	    according to the instructions in the file.  If you added
-	    something before you've read this, you may use
+	    something before reading this, use
 	    <command>svn rm --keep-local</command> for just added
 	    files, fix your config file and re-add them again.  The
 	    initial config file is created when you first run a svn
@@ -1005,22 +1005,22 @@
 	<itemizedlist>
 	  <listitem>
 	    <para><literal>log</literal>,
-	      <literal>diff</literal>.</para>
+	      <literal>diff</literal></para>
 	  </listitem>
 	  <listitem>
-	    <para><literal>mkdir</literal>.</para>
+	    <para><literal>mkdir</literal></para>
 	  </listitem>
 	  <listitem>
 	    <para><literal>remove</literal>, <literal>copy</literal>,
-	      <literal>rename</literal>.</para>
+	      <literal>rename</literal></para>
 	  </listitem>
 	  <listitem>
 	    <para><literal>propset</literal>,
 	      <literal>propedit</literal>,
-	      <literal>propdel</literal>.</para>
+	      <literal>propdel</literal></para>
 	  </listitem>
 	  <listitem>
-	    <para><literal>merge</literal>.</para>
+	    <para><literal>merge</literal></para>
 	  </listitem>
 	</itemizedlist>
 
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@
 	  <orderedlist>
 	    <listitem>
 	      <para>If <filename
-		  class="directory">branch/foo/bar/</filename> doesn't
+		  class="directory">branch/foo/bar/</filename> does not
 		already have a mergeinfo record, but a direct ancestor
 		(for instance, <filename
 		  class="directory">branch/foo/</filename>) does,
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@
 	<sect4>
 	  <title>Merging</title>
 
-	  <para>Now, let's start merging!</para>
+	  <para>Now, let us start merging!</para>
 
 	  <sect5>
 	    <title>The Principles</title>
@@ -1288,18 +1288,18 @@
 
 	    <itemizedlist>
 	      <listitem>
-		<para>revision <literal>$R</literal>.</para>
+		<para>revision <literal>$R</literal></para>
 	      </listitem>
 	      <listitem>
 		<para>in directory $target in stable branch
-		  $B.</para>
+		  $B</para>
 	      </listitem>
 	      <listitem>
-		<para>from directory $source in head.</para>
+		<para>from directory $source in head</para>
 	      </listitem>
 	      <listitem>
 		<para>$FSVN is
-		  <literal>svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/base</literal>.</para>
+		  <literal>svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/base</literal></para>
 	      </listitem>
 	    </itemizedlist>
 
@@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
       </sect3>
 
       <sect3>
-	<title>Vendor imports with <acronym>SVN</acronym></title>
+	<title>Vendor Imports with <acronym>SVN</acronym></title>
 
 	<important>
 	  <para>Please read this entire section before starting a vendor
@@ -1431,7 +1431,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	      <para>Vendor patches: these are patches that have been
             issued by the vendor, or that have been extracted from
             the vendor's version control system, which address
-            issues which in your opinion can't wait until the next
+            issues which in your opinion cannot wait until the next
             vendor release.</para>
 	    </listitem>
 	    <listitem>
@@ -1462,7 +1462,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	</note>
 
 	<sect4>
-	  <title>Preparing the tree</title>
+	  <title>Preparing the Tree</title>
 
 	  <para>If importing for the first time after the switch to
 	    Subversion, flattening and cleaning up the vendor tree is
@@ -1503,7 +1503,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	      off until the end of the process.</para>
 	  </sect5>
 	  <sect5>
-	    <title>Cleaning up</title>
+	    <title>Cleaning Up</title>
 
 	    <para>The <literal>dist</literal> tree can be cleaned up
 	      as necessary.  Disabling keyword expansion is
@@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 &prompt.root; <userinput>svn commit</userinput></screen>
 	  </sect5>
 	  <sect5>
-	    <title>Bootstrapping merge history</title>
+	    <title>Bootstrapping Merge History</title>
 
 	    <para>If importing for the first time after the switch to
 	      Subversion, bootstrap
@@ -1533,7 +1533,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	</sect4>
 
 	<sect4>
-	  <title>Importing new sources</title>
+	  <title>Importing New Sources</title>
 
 	  <para>With two commits—one for the import itself and
 	    one for the tag—this step can optionally be repeated
@@ -1541,7 +1541,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	    current import.</para>
 
 	  <sect5>
-	    <title>Preparing the vendor sources</title>
+	    <title>Preparing the Vendor Sources</title>
 
 	    <para>Unlike in <acronym>CVS</acronym> where only the needed
 	      parts were imported into the vendor tree to avoid bloating
@@ -1570,7 +1570,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	      will list added files only in <filename>new</filename>.</para>
 	  </sect5>
 	  <sect5>
-	    <title>Importing into the vendor tree</title>
+	    <title>Importing into the Vendor Tree</title>
 
 	    <para>Now, the sources must be copied into
 	      <filename><replaceable>dist</replaceable></filename> and
@@ -1627,14 +1627,14 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	  </sect5>
 	</sect4>
 	<sect4>
-	  <title>Merging to head</title>
+	  <title>Merging to Head</title>
 
 	  <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cd <replaceable>head/contrib/pf</replaceable></userinput>
 &prompt.user; <userinput>svn up</userinput>
 &prompt.user; <userinput>svn merge --accept=postpone svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/base/<replaceable>vendor/pf/dist</replaceable> .</userinput></screen>
 
 	  <para>The <literal>--accept=postpone</literal> tells
-	    Subversion that it shouldn't complain because merge conflicts
+	    Subversion that it should not complain because merge conflicts
 	    will be taken care of manually.</para>
 
 	  <para>It is necessary to resolve any merge conflicts.
@@ -1651,7 +1651,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	    Subversion not to complain about files that are in the
 	    vendor tree but not in the main tree, i.e., things that
 	    would have previously been removed before the vendor
-	    import, like for example the like the vendor's makefiles
+	    import, like for example the vendor's makefiles
 	    and configure scripts.</para>
 
 	  <para>Using <acronym>CVS</acronym>, once a file was off the
@@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	    until everything builds and runs perfectly.</para>
 	</sect4>
 	<sect4>
-	  <title>Committing the vendor import</title>
+	  <title>Committing the Vendor Import</title>
 
 	  <para>Committing is now possible!  Everything must be
 	    committed in one go.  If done properly, the tree will move
@@ -1676,10 +1676,10 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	</sect4>
 
 	<sect4>
-	  <title>From scratch</title>
+	  <title>From Scratch</title>
 
 	  <sect5>
-	    <title>Importing into the vendor tree</title>
+	    <title>Importing into the Vendor Tree</title>
 
 	    <para>This section is an example of importing and tagging
 	      <application>byacc</application> into
@@ -1704,7 +1704,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	  </sect5>
 
 	  <sect5>
-	    <title>Merging to head</title>
+	    <title>Merging to <literal>head</literal></title>
 
 	    <para>Due to this being a new file, copy it for the
 	      merge:</para>
@@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
       <sect3>
 	<title>Maintaining a Project Branch</title>
 
-	<para>A project branch is one that's synced to head (or
+	<para>A project branch is one that is synced to head (or
 	  another branch) is used to develop a project then commit it
 	  back to head.  In <acronym>SVN</acronym>,
 	  <quote>dolphin</quote> branching is used for this.  A
@@ -1903,7 +1903,7 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
       <para>In commit logs etc., <quote>rev 179872</quote> should be
 	spelled <quote>r179872</quote> as per convention.</para>
 
-      <para>Don't remove and re-add the same file in a single commit
+      <para>Do not remove and re-add the same file in a single commit
 	as this will break the CVS exporter.</para>
 
       <para>Speeding up svn is
@@ -1940,7 +1940,7 @@ ControlPersist yes</screen>
       to do these things for you.)</para>
 
     <sect2 id="conventions-committers">
-      <title>Guidelines For Committers</title>
+      <title>Guidelines for Committers</title>
 
       <note>
 	<para>The <literal>.ent</literal>, <literal>.xml</literal>,
@@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@ ControlPersist yes</screen>
 	</important>
 
 	<note>
-	  <para>Don't forget to get mentor approval for these patches!</para>
+	  <para>Do not forget to get mentor approval for these patches!</para>
 	</note>
 
       </listitem>
@@ -2079,7 +2079,7 @@ ControlPersist yes</screen>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 id="conventions-everyone">
-      <title>Guidelines For Everyone</title>
+      <title>Guidelines for Everyone</title>
 
       <para>Whether or not you have commit rights:</para>
 
@@ -2518,7 +2518,7 @@ ControlPersist yes</screen>
 	  sure that you run it before running other applications.  X
 	  users, for example, usually do this from their
 	  <filename>.xsession</filename> or
-	  <filename>.xinitrc</filename> file.  See &man.ssh-agent.1;
+	  <filename>.xinitrc</filename>.  See &man.ssh-agent.1;
 	  for details.</para>
       </step>
 
@@ -3057,9 +3057,9 @@ ControlPersist yes</screen>
 
       <para>The &arch.i386; and &arch.sparc64; platforms were chosen due to being more
 	readily available to developers and as representatives of more
-	diverse processor and system designs - big vs little endian,
-	register file vs register stack, different DMA and cache
-	implementations, hardware page tables vs software TLB management
+	diverse processor and system designs - big versus little endian,
+	register file versus register stack, different DMA and cache
+	implementations, hardware page tables versus software TLB management
 	etc.</para>
 
       <para>The &arch.ia64; platform has many of the same complications that
@@ -4099,7 +4099,7 @@ bak/packages  packages from last complet
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1 id="non-committers">
-    <title>Issues Specific To Developers Who Are Not Committers</title>
+    <title>Issues Specific to Developers Who Are Not Committers</title>
 
     <para>A few people who have access to the FreeBSD machines do not
       have commit bits.  For instance, the project is willing to give
@@ -4153,7 +4153,7 @@ bak/packages  packages from last complet
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1 id="google-analytics">
-    <title>Information about &ga;</title>
+    <title>Information About &ga;</title>
 
     <para>As of December 12, 2012, &ga; was enabled on the
       &os; Project website to collect anonymized usage statistics
@@ -4276,11 +4276,6 @@ bak/packages  packages from last complet
 	      <para>From now on, every new vendor release of that file will
 		need to have patches <emphasis>verified</emphasis> by hand.</para>
 	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>The <option>-j</option> option does not work very well.
-		Ask &a.obrien; for horror stories.</para>
-	    </listitem>
 	  </itemizedlist>
 	</answer>
       </qandaentry>
@@ -4393,7 +4388,7 @@ bak/packages  packages from last complet
 	  </informaltable>
 
 	  <example>
-	    <title>Commit log for a commit based on a PR</title>
+	    <title>Commit Log for a Commit Based on a PR</title>
 
 	    <para>You want to commit a change based on a PR submitted by John
 	      Smith containing a patch.  The end of the commit message should
@@ -4406,7 +4401,7 @@ Submitted by:	   John Smith <John.Smi
 	  </example>
 
 	  <example>
-	    <title>Commit log for a commit needing review</title>
+	    <title>Commit Log for a Commit Needing Review</title>
 
 	    <para>You want to change the virtual memory system.  You have
 	      posted patches to the appropriate mailing list (in this case,
@@ -4419,7 +4414,7 @@ Reviewed by:       -arch</programlisting
 	  </example>
 
 	  <example>
-	    <title>Commit log for a commit needing approval</title>
+	    <title>Commit Log for a Commit Needing Approval</title>
 
 	    <para>You want to commit a change to a section of the tree with a
 	      MAINTAINER assigned.  You have collaborated with the listed
@@ -4434,7 +4429,7 @@ Approved by:	    <replaceable>abc</repla
 	  </example>
 
 	  <example>
-	    <title>Commit log for a commit bringing in code from
+	    <title>Commit Log for a Commit Bringing in Code from
 	      OpenBSD</title>
 
 	    <para>You want to commit some code based on work done in the
@@ -4446,8 +4441,8 @@ Obtained from:      OpenBSD</programlist
 	  </example>
 
 	  <example>
-	    <title>Commit log for a change to &os.current; with a planned
-	      commit to &os.stable; to follow at a later date.</title>
+	    <title>Commit Log for a Change to &os.current; with a Planned
+	      Commit to &os.stable; to Follow at a Later Date.</title>
 
 	    <para>You want to commit some code which will be merged from
 	      &os.current; into the &os.stable; branch after two


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