Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:09:29 -0800 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: Those ruddy punctuation fixes |
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Werner Almesberger wrote: > One problem with spelling fixes is that there's never a good > moment, nor a good procedure to do them. > > >>There are _dozens_ of known problems, and I'll take patches >>fixing real problems over spelling fixes any day. > > > I guess it would be nice if Linus would give some advance warning > when he's going to accept speelnig fixes. That way, people with > "real work" could schedule a few weeks at the beach, while the > spelling police does its grisly job. > > Of course, we all know that this will never happen ;-)
The next best thing might be for the spelling police to maintain an archive of all the accepted spellfix patches. That would let a sufficiently motivated person (say, a spelling policeman) to offer a patch update service with a reasonable certainty that he could bring arbitrary patches up to date with respect to the spellfixes in the main tree. I've outlined a proposal for this at http://www.kegel.com/kerspell
This spellfix business is way more work than is reasonable. The people who spend the time making it work while taking care of all these issues (avoiding pun removal, avoiding breakage, avoiding wrong corrections, patch updating) are clearly on acid, but I salute them. Me, I just take notes and watch :-) - Dan
-- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045
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