On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:22:30AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > According to James Youngman on 12/8/2005 12:57 AM: > > > > However, I don't have an explicit policy of British spelling for the > > document, that's just the way I spell words. I didn't really plan to > > standardise on UK spelling. However, the typos did need to be corrected. > > Most GNU programs tend to standardize (or is it standardise)
<pedant> In the UK, both are acceptable spellings, though a pedant would say that standardize was more correct. The -ise ending is more common, though. See http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/ize?view=uk </pedant> > on American English instead of British English. Nothing against the > British (my wife is from the UK), but consistency with other GNU > programs such as coreutils and gcc might argue that UK contributors > put up with us brash Americans on our choice of spellings. :) But I > didn't see anything in the GNU Coding Standards that made this > sentiment a requirement. Perhaps the idea didn't occur to the authors of maintain.texi. I wouldn't want to push the issue. Anyway, we're teetering toward a position statement on spelling in the findutils manual, and so here it is: - 1. I spell things the British way, and would not be able to reliably spell things the American way all the time. This means that as long as it is I who writes the bulk of the new documentation, British spellings will trickle into the document. 2. I will accept patches with spelling corrections, subject to the usual restrictions on copyright assignment. Such spelling corrections can be American-English-flavored or rest-of-the-World-English-flavoured. Either would be accepted. 3. Contributions of useful documentation to findutils will be accepted in any language or dialect (subject to any requriement for a copyright assignment and/or waiver), though my ability to maintain documentation in non-European languages is nonexistent. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
