Re: svn commit: r48574 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles

Mathieu Arnold <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Apr 2016 22:37:52 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs.doc
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

+--On 12 avril 2016 18:42:10 +0000 Jason Helfman <[email protected]> wrote:
| Author: jgh
| Date: Tue Apr 12 18:42:10 2016
| New Revision: 48574
| URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48574
| 
| Log:
|   - convert ordered list to unordered list

Thing is, now, one can't say "this goes against the COMMENT rule n°X".
(Which is a thing people say, right now.)

|   - address rules verbiage and grammar
|
|   Reviewed with: wblock@
| 
| Modified:
|   head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
| 
| Modified:
| head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
| =========================================================================
| ===== ---
| head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml	Tue Apr
| 12 18:19:29 2016	(r48573) +++
| head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml	Tue Apr
| 12 18:42:10 2016	(r48574) @@ -3124,46 +3124,43 @@ ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES=
| 	yes
|    <sect1 xml:id="makefile-comment">
|      <title><varname>COMMENT</varname></title>
|  
| -    <para>This is a one-line description of the port.  Please respect
| -      these rules:</para>
| +    <para>The comment is a one-line description of a port shown by
| +      <command>pkg info</command>.  Please follow these rules when
| +      composing it:</para>
|  
| -    <orderedlist>
| +    <itemizedlist>
|        <listitem>
| -	<para>Try to keep the COMMENT value at no longer than 70
| -	  characters, as this line will be used by
| -	  <command>pkg info</command> (see &man.pkg-info.8;) to
| -	  display a one-line summary of the port;</para>
| +	<para>The COMMENT string should be 70 characters or less.</para>
|        </listitem>
|  
|        <listitem>
| -	<para>Do <emphasis>not</emphasis> include the package name (or
| -	  version number of the software);</para>
| +	<para>Do <emphasis>not</emphasis> include the package name or
| +	  version number of software.</para>
|        </listitem>
|  
|        <listitem>
|  	<para>The comment must begin with a capital and end without
| -	  a period;</para>
| +	  a period.</para>
|        </listitem>
|  
|        <listitem>
|  	<para>Do not start with an indefinite article (that is, A or
| -	  An);</para>
| +	  An).</para>
|        </listitem>
|  
|        <listitem>
| -	<para>Names are capitalized (for example, Apache, JavaScript,
| -	  Perl);</para>
| +	<para>Capitalize names such as Apache, JavaScript, or Perl.</para>
|        </listitem>
|  
|        <listitem>
| -	<para>For lists of words, use the Oxford comma (for example,
| -	  green, red<emphasis>,</emphasis> and blue);</para>
| +	<para>Use a serial comma for lists of words: "green,
| +	  red<emphasis>,</emphasis> and blue."</para>
|        </listitem>
|  
|        <listitem>
| -	<para>Spell check the text.</para>
| +	<para>Check for spelling errors.</para>
|        </listitem>
| -    </orderedlist>
| +    </itemizedlist>
|  
|      <para>Here is an example:</para>
|  
| 
| 



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