> On Apr 22, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Bernd Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> (Apologies if you get this twice, the mailing list didn't like the html
> attachment in the first attempt).
>
> We frequently get malformatted patches, and it's been brought to my attention
> that some people don't even make the effort to read the GNU coding standards
> before trying to contribute code. TL;DR seems to be the excuse, and while I
> find that attitude inappropriate, we could probably improve the situation by
> spelling out the most basic rules in an abridged document on our webpages.
> Below is a draft I came up with. Thoughts?
Would you expect people to conform to the abridged version or the full
standard? If the full standard, then publishing an abridged version is not a
good idea, it will just cause confusion. Let the full standard be the rule,
make people read it, and if they didn't bother that's their problem.
paul
