From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>, Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Those ruddy punctuation fixes
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 21:29:25 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030307212925.S2791@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030308005241.GA24077@suse.de>; from davej@codemonkey.org.uk on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:52:47PM -0100
Dave Jones wrote:
> Spelling fixes aren't going to get us to 2.6.0 any faster.
One problem with spelling fixes is that there's never a good
moment, nor a good procedure to do them.
> There are _dozens_ of known problems, and I'll take patches
> fixing real problems over spelling fixes any day.
I guess it would be nice if Linus would give some advance warning
when he's going to accept speelnig fixes. That way, people with
"real work" could schedule a few weeks at the beach, while the
spelling police does its grisly job.
Of course, we all know that this will never happen ;-)
- Werner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-08 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-07 7:16 Those ruddy punctuation fixes Dan Kegel
2003-03-07 17:17 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-03-07 18:00 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-07 23:15 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 0:52 ` Dave Jones
2003-03-08 0:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-08 0:29 ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2003-03-08 1:09 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-08 2:18 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-08 1:08 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-05 11:10 Russell King
2003-03-05 11:22 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 14:18 ` Mike Dresser
2003-03-06 1:50 ` jw schultz
2003-03-06 9:58 ` Russell King
2003-03-06 10:46 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 12:20 ` Dave Jones
2003-03-06 3:11 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 1:04 ` Val Henson
2003-03-07 2:44 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 3:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-07 4:02 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 5:11 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-07 17:04 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] ` <mailman.1047000901.5238.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-03-07 3:07 ` Pete Zaitcev
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