On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 22:44, Erik Faye-Lund <erik.faye-l...@collabora.com> wrote: > > TLDR; I'm proposing to standardize on US English in our public-facing > documentation. > > I proposed an MR a while back that changed the only occurrence of the > UK English spelling "optimisation" for the US English spelling > "optimization", which is already used 34 times in the docs. I've done > similar changes in the past. > > But this time Ian brought up the good point that picking a preferred > language should probably be done using group consensus on the mailing > list than just picking what's currently most popular. > > So, I hereby propose to pick US English as our default language for > user-facing documentation. > > I'm not proposing to force anyone to use a particular English variant > for things like comments, commit messages or variable names. I don't > think there's much value in enforcing that, and I think it'd be > perfectly fine if any particular driver wanted to pick a particular > variant of English. > > The main reason I want to standardize on an English variant is that I'm > trying create a word-list for domain-specific/technical language to > detect spelling mistakes in the docs more easily. And not having to add > both US and UK English words makes this list easier to maintain. I'm > not planning on going 100% systematically though the dictionary to > detect UK English words that might be in my system dictionary, just to > fix the words that currently cause me (a tiny amount of) pain ;) > > The main reason why I'm proposing US English over for instance UK > English is that this seems to be the dominant variant currently in the > documentation. So it seems like the pragmatic choice to me. > > Thoughts? Any objections to sticking to US English in the docs?
All good, though I'm in the most likely to screw this up category, I'm never sure when to use s or z so it usually ends up being rather random, I think I've mostly got my outbreaks of colour under control. Dave. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev