Hello,
> I prefer to use the active voice (and present, not past) in ChangeLog
> entries.
actually, I prefer it, too. It's just that when someone told me to use the
past tense, I found his reasons stronger than mine. But I continued to use
the imperatives, anyway.
> The same goes for comments in code, of course.
Whn you write:
/* Compute the multiple. */
cents = 100 * dollars;
it's clear it's an imperative. (C is an imperative language, after all,
and comments are the same, just on a higher level.)
> In some respects,
> ChangeLog entries are comments on the development process, so they are
> analogous to code comments.
Oh, thank you. That's the origin and the reason I was searching for.
One might think that it's a ``log'', with records of what was done.
But not, it an ``analogy'' to code. ;-)
> FWIW, that has been the `standard' in coreutils since day 1.
As I said above, I prefer the ``imperative'' style, too.
> ... -- it's not that big a deal, after all.
Exactly.
Thank you Jim for your comments, t helped me to understand the motives
behind it.
Have a nice day,
Stepan
