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El dom, 21-10-2012 a las 09:34 +0800, Ben de Groot escribió: |
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> On 20 October 2012 03:01, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Hello |
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> > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would |
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> > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman |
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> > warning? |
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> In English, phrases don't end with a full stop. As has been argued |
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> elsewhere in this thread, using full stops (periods, dots) is |
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> unnecessary, redundant, and ugly. |
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> It is my professional opinion, as an English teacher, that we should |
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> *never* use full stops in DESCRIPTION fields. |
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> If we are to use a repoman warning, we should encourage people to NOT |
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> use a full stop at the end of their description phrases. Also, the |
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> package name should not be repeated as part of the description. |
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Yes, looks like I was wrong and the proper is to not end with a dot. |
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