Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man8

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:13:30PM -0400, Allen Briggs wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:19:38PM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:41:52PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > > Peter Postma <peter%pointless.nl@localhost> writes:
> > > > Because according to the archives, american english is preferred...
> > > For good or bad, that was also my recollection.
> > And it differs completely from my recollection.
> 
> My recollection is that the preferred language variant is the one
> that the original author used and that within a file (or set of
> files), it should be consistent.  It would probably be a good idea
> to note if the localization is not En_US (is that the right
> notation?), since that seems to be the prevailing dialect used
> in the tree.
> 
> Does this match your recollection, Al?  Was there ever a consensus,
> or did people eventually decide to get work done instead of continuing
> the discussion?

Yes, that's exactly how I remember the resolution.

Thanks, Allen.

Regards,
Alistair