On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:45 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:46 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: >> > Don't use a trailing period either. >> >> I find this really odd and rather arbitrary. I think it's something to >> do with you wanting to use these first lines in bullet-point lists. But >> there's no real grammar consensus about periods at the end of >> bullet-point items. I personally can't stand a sentence without a bullet >> point if it's more than 4 or 5 words. Can we please remove that >> requirement? > > It's not a requirement. It's a suggestion. Individual > maintainers are free to have different suggestions. So > the goal of the overall suggestions is to capture what > most maintainers want.
Exactly, it's a guideline. Personally I don't see the point of a full-stop; you already know the summary will be one line, and if for some reason is not complete you'll see "..." -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list