Bearing in mind the fact that Linux is going through the same argument, what's your reasoning?
The ASF is a US registered organisation. Most users of Apache code are from the US. Most commiters in the ASF are from the US [though I think US committers are the minority in Commons Lang]. others? Hen On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Sean W. Ferguson wrote: > Eh, US English really should be the standard. > > Henri Yandell wrote: > > > It's up to the people concerned. > > > > When I first pushed that code in, I offered to standardise on US english > > spelling but it wasn't something the Commons list wanted to do. > > > > So I figure it's a nice way to educate people that the majority of English > > speakers in the world spell it capitalise :) > > > > [Actually, hard to get figures on that. Population of Canada/Australia/UK > > + that of India that writes English at least. I'm just not sure how much > > of India actually writes English. Probably a similar-ish number. ] > > > > Hen > > > > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Hope, Matthew wrote: > > > > > >>We could fix the US spelling ;?) > >> > >>seriously - is there a convention within apache / jakarta / commons to use > >>US or UK english spelling? > >> > >>(or is it a case of consistency within sub project) > >> > >>Matt > >> > >> > >>>-----Original Message----- > >>>From: Gary Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>Sent: 13 August 2003 18:57 > >>>To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List' > >>>Subject: StringUtils misspelled method names? > >>> > >>> > >>>Unless I am not seing straight, the following are not spelled > >>>properly: > >>> > >>>1) capitalise > >>>2) capitaliseAllWords > >>>3) uncapitalise > >>>4) uncapitaliseAllWords > >>> > >>>They should be: > >>> > >>>capitalize > >>>capitalizeAllWords > >>>uncapitalize > >>>uncapitalizeAllWords > >>> > >>>Which is *capitalize* with a 'z' not an 's'. > >>> > >>>Should we fix the spelling now? > >>>At all? > >>>The (4) method does not exist in version 1.0.1 but all of the > >>>others do... > >>> > >>>Arg, > >>> > >>>Gary > >>> > >>> > >>>>-----Original Message----- > >>>>From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:01 > >>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>Subject: Running maven for modeler question > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>Howdy, > >>>>As one of the final steps in getting the commons-modeler 1.1 release > >>>>out, I'd like to update the modeler site at > >>>>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/modeler/ > >>>> > >>>>I've already updated the main jakarta and main commons > >>> > >>>sites, thanks to > >>> > >>>>Senor Donkin's excellent instructions at > >>>>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/releases. > >>>> > >>>>It looks like the site was generated by maven. 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