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Re: [PATCH] Documentation/CommunityGuidelines

From
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 11, 2013, 18:46 UTC
Message-ID
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<20130611182936.GM22905@serenity.lan>
John Keeping wrote:
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>     Ugh, why this roundabout-passive-past tone?  Use imperative tone
>     like this:
>
>         ...
>
> vs.
>
>     We normally use the imperative in commit messages, perhaps like
>     this?
>
>         ...
>
> As my mother would say, "politeness costs nothing" ;-)

The review is being honest about her feelings in the first one, and being artificially diplomatic in the second one. Both of them are constructive and friendly, in that they provide an example for the submitter to follow.

Either way, I'm not interested in problems that have no solutions. The only "solution" I see here is to suffocate every contributor until they are "tactful enough" for the majority's liking, and "remove" the ones that don't conform. If you do have an alternate solution, please share it with us.

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  1. Documentation/CommunityGuidelinesRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 10, 2013
  2. Célestin MatteJun 10, 2013
  3. Matthieu MoyJun 10, 2013
  4. Robin H. JohnsonJun 10, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2013
  6. Jonathan NiederJun 10, 2013
  7. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 10, 2013
  8. A Large Angry SCMJun 10, 2013
  9. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 10, 2013
  10. A Large Angry SCMJun 10, 2013
  11. Felipe ContrerasJun 11, 2013
  12. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 11, 2013
  13. Michael HaggertyJun 11, 2013
  14. Felipe ContrerasJun 11, 2013
  15. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 11, 2013
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  17. Thomas RastJun 11, 2013
  18. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 11, 2013
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  21. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 11, 2013
  22. Michael HaggertyJun 11, 2013
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  24. Junio C HamanoJun 11, 2013
  25. Felipe ContrerasJun 11, 2013
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  27. Brandon CaseyJun 11, 2013
  28. Theodore Ts'oJun 12, 2013
  29. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 12, 2013
  30. Felipe ContrerasJun 12, 2013
  31. Felipe ContrerasJun 11, 2013
  32. Thomas RastJun 11, 2013
  33. Felipe ContrerasJun 11, 2013
  34. Thomas RastJun 11, 2013
  35. Felipe ContrerasJun 11, 2013
  36. Junio C HamanoJun 11, 2013
  37. Michael HaggertyJun 11, 2013
  38. John KeepingJun 11, 2013
  39. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 11, 2013
  40. John KeepingJun 11, 2013
  41. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 12, 2013
  42. John KeepingJun 12, 2013
  43. Michael HaggertyJun 11, 2013
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  45. Philip OakleyJun 11, 2013
  46. John SzakmeisterJun 12, 2013
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  49. Felipe ContrerasJun 11, 2013
  50. Jeff KingJun 11, 2013
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  52. Felipe ContrerasJun 11, 2013
  53. Theodore Ts'oJun 12, 2013
  54. Felipe ContrerasJun 12, 2013
  55. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 12, 2013
  56. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2013
  57. Michael HaggertyJun 13, 2013
  58. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2013
  59. Felipe ContrerasJun 11, 2013
  60. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 11, 2013
  61. Thomas AdamJun 13, 2013
  62. Felipe ContrerasJun 13, 2013
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