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Ulrich Müller posted on Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:30:49 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> diff --git a/glep-0042.rst b/glep-0042.rst |
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> index 7726ea4..90ae0b2 100644 |
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> --- a/glep-0042.rst |
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> +++ b/glep-0042.rst |
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> @@ -179,7 +179,9 @@ form ``yyyy-mm-dd-short-name``, where ``yyyy`` is the year (e.g. ``2005``), |
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> ``mm`` is the month (``01`` through ``12``) and dd is the day of the month |
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> (``01`` through ``31``). The ``short-name`` is a very short name describing the |
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> news item (e.g. ``yoursql-updates``), consisting only of the characters ``a-z``, |
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> -``0-9``, ``+`` (plus), ``-`` (hyphen) and ``_`` (underscore). |
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> +``0-9``, ``+`` (plus), ``-`` (hyphen) and ``_`` (underscore). While there |
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> +is no hard restriction for the length of ``short-name``, it is strongly |
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> +recommended to limit it to at most 20 characters. |
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Arguably bikeshedding but changing up the last sentence to read a bit smoother |
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(I skipped formatting)... |
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While there is no hard restriction on the length of short-name, |
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limiting it to 20 characters is strongly recommended. |
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(s/for/on/, reversing order of the limit and strongly recommended.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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