Ulrich Müller posted on Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:30:49 +0100 as excerpted: > diff --git a/glep-0042.rst b/glep-0042.rst > index 7726ea4..90ae0b2 100644 > --- a/glep-0042.rst > +++ b/glep-0042.rst > @@ -179,7 +179,9 @@ form ``yyyy-mm-dd-short-name``, where ``yyyy`` is the > year (e.g. ``2005``), > ``mm`` is the month (``01`` through ``12``) and dd is the day of the month > (``01`` through ``31``). The ``short-name`` is a very short name describing > the > news item (e.g. ``yoursql-updates``), consisting only of the characters > ``a-z``, > -``0-9``, ``+`` (plus), ``-`` (hyphen) and ``_`` (underscore). > +``0-9``, ``+`` (plus), ``-`` (hyphen) and ``_`` (underscore). While there > +is no hard restriction for the length of ``short-name``, it is strongly > +recommended to limit it to at most 20 characters.
Arguably bikeshedding but changing up the last sentence to read a bit smoother (I skipped formatting)... While there is no hard restriction on the length of short-name, limiting it to 20 characters is strongly recommended. (s/for/on/, reversing order of the limit and strongly recommended.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
