Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756715AbZDPC11 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:27:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754489AbZDPC1L (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:27:11 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56109 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753879AbZDPC1K (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:27:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:22:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Ingo Molnar cc: David Miller , hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, davej@redhat.com Subject: Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c In-Reply-To: <20090416014642.GA24029@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <49E62BD5.6090508@zytor.com> <20090415.142326.97287514.davem@davemloft.net> <20090415224800.GA22425@elte.hu> <20090416004430.GA22616@elte.hu> <20090416014642.GA24029@elte.hu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1306 Lines: 33 On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Show me one person _you_ actually taught to write good changelogs - > just one person who was not a natural born talker to begin with. > I'll show you a 100 other people who cannot write good commit logs. > They'll try and will limp along, but generally they cannot. > > They might not even have English as their mother tongue - but still > can read and understand C fantastically. So? The fix for that is not to write crap English. The fix for that is to help them, and/or just fix their comments for them. I really don't see the point of your argument. "People don't always write good and complete sentences" is _not_ an argument for then making that a standard. Just fix things up. Edit their emails. I do. Andrew does. Yes, and despite that some commits will still have odd grammar or otherwise not be the great novel of the century, and that's not the point. But we should _improve_ on the language for people who aren't native English speakers, not devolve it to something weaker. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/