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OOC, what was the motivation for these changes, especially changing the ChangeLog, which seems like a no-no, and other people's entries at that? Rical
On 10 Aug 2016 19:19, Rical Jasan wrote: > OOC, what was the motivation for these changes, especially changing the > ChangeLog, which seems like a no-no, and other people's entries at that? the commit speaks for itself. i don't see any problems here -- ChangeLogs aren't immutable. simply look at their file history to see other fixes. -mike
On 08/11/2016 12:07 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 10 Aug 2016 19:19, Rical Jasan wrote: >> OOC, what was the motivation for these changes, especially changing the >> ChangeLog, which seems like a no-no, and other people's entries at that? > > the commit speaks for itself. i don't see any problems here -- ChangeLogs > aren't immutable. simply look at their file history to see other fixes. +1 I further support changes like this. We should be an inclusive community and that means civil behaviour which avoids name calling. That doesn't mean we should sterilize everything and remove all flavour from our conversations and commits, but indirectly putting down users that use Windows or Mac OSX is not nice. Similarly I don't enjoy bad language in commit messages. The sources should be clean enough for even young developers to read. Likewise full sentences and proper grammar :-) Cheers, Carlos.
Carlos O'Donell wrote: > indirectly putting down users that use > Windows or Mac OSX is not nice While we're on the topic of terminology, commentary shouldn't call that operating system "Windows", a name that is too easily confused with the X Window System and with other windowing systems. This is why the US Patent and Trademark Office rejected Microsoft's attempt to trademark "Windows". In GNU Emacs commit messages, we often call the it "MS-Windows", which is short enough and is clearer than "Windows".
diff --git a/ChangeLog.11 b/ChangeLog.11 index d9b036436121..356da033c381 100644 --- a/ChangeLog.11 +++ b/ChangeLog.11 @@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ * elf/dl-error.c (_dl_signal_error): Allocate memory for objname as well. Reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav@yars.free.net>. - * iconvdata/gconv-modules: Add aliases for Winblowz charsets. + * iconvdata/gconv-modules: Add aliases for Windows charsets. Patch by Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>. 2000-10-13 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> diff --git a/ChangeLog.8 b/ChangeLog.8 index 5c3be9fc9f24..52b85a627091 100644 --- a/ChangeLog.8 +++ b/ChangeLog.8 @@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ 1998-07-29 12:58 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> - * sysdeps/generic/glob.c: Winblowz compatibility stuff. + * sysdeps/generic/glob.c: Windows compatibility stuff. Patch received from Paul D. Smith <psmith@BayNetworks.COM>. 1998-07-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>