From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Those ruddy punctuation fixes
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 10:00:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E68DE24.9060804@kegel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030307121723.B3204@redhat.com>
Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:16:07PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
>>Or is the hubub really about something else? Like people
>>just hate the whole idea, and wish it would go away,
>>and don't really want to discuss it rationally?
>
>
> Spelling fixes are annoying ways to break patches that provide no
> user visible value.
Indeed, breaking patches with spelling fixes is a big mistake, and should never be done.
> It also detracts from the character of the
> code: who wants "drain brammage" to be replaced with "brain dammage"?
Nobody. That's why I maintain a spelling police code of conduct at
http://www.kegel.com/kerspell/
along with my spellchecking tools. I explicitly say "Do not fix puns!"
and "Have several literate people review your changes!"
- Dan
--
Dan Kegel
http://www.kegel.com
http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-07 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-07 7:16 Those ruddy punctuation fixes Dan Kegel
2003-03-07 17:17 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-03-07 18:00 ` Dan Kegel [this message]
2003-03-07 23:15 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 0:52 ` Dave Jones
2003-03-08 0:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-08 0:29 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-08 1:09 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-08 2:18 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-08 1:08 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-05 11:10 Russell King
2003-03-05 11:22 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 14:18 ` Mike Dresser
2003-03-06 1:50 ` jw schultz
2003-03-06 9:58 ` Russell King
2003-03-06 10:46 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 12:20 ` Dave Jones
2003-03-06 3:11 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 1:04 ` Val Henson
2003-03-07 2:44 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 3:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-07 4:02 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 5:11 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-07 17:04 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] ` <mailman.1047000901.5238.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-03-07 3:07 ` Pete Zaitcev
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=3E68DE24.9060804@kegel.com \
--to=dank@kegel.com \
--cc=bcrl@redhat.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.