Re: Flamewars & Why pedantic spelling is good.
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Craig Sanders wrote:
> yawn. you're wrong. again.
I have seen no quotes from you, of other, *outside* sources, that show
'zonefile' in widespread use. I *have* seen posts saying that 'zone file' is,
however.
> i'm just pissed off by trivial bug reports about bugs that aren't bugs.
> only a few years ago, this kind of thing was frowned on in debian and
> referred to as Bug System Terrorism. these days it's acceptable.
Bugs are bugs. And the misspellings are still misspellings.
Unannounced mass-filings are what are you talking about. And yes, it was
frowned upon. That's why now mass-filed bug reports need to be discussed
*first* on debian-devel. And this one was.
All procedures were followed. To the letter. So, that obviously means that
the bugs are incorrect. Not.
> has there been a change to policy that i don't know about? are we all
> now subject to MZ's idiosyncratic spelling?
This was discussed. For quite a while. Several had perused the list of
spellings.
Because you didn't particpate at the time, does that invalidate the entire
exchange?
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