[ELDK] [PATCH v2 1/2] META-ELDK: u-boot-mkimage: unbreak U-Boot tools build
Marek Vasut
marex at denx.de
Tue Apr 22 20:21:27 CEST 2014
On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 07:45:34 PM, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 18:49 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 04:06:26 PM, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> > > [ ... ]
> > >
> > > I'm happy to capitalize sentences in the commit message (assuming that
> > > there is so strong a policy for non-documentation parts), after the
> > > actual change has been verified. My tests included generic-armv7a-hf,
> > > socfpga and m28evk.
> >
> > Please capitalize, yes, there's a strong policy when communicating with
> > other people ;-)
>
> Such a policy appears to strongly depend on individual projects,
> as people's perception is not universally identical. Speaking
> for myself, I have problems parsing sequences of words which
> pretend to be a sentence while they are not. So I do assume that
> there are strong feelings in either direction. Ask three persons
> and get four opinions. :)
Uh oh, I was always under the impression that we're always writing full
sentences. And when writing full sentences, we start them with capital letters
and end them with a fullstop. Let's stick to this ;-)
> I always assumed that there is a difference between documentation
> and "non-documentation" (source code comments, commit messages),
> where the latter are not prose and don't pretend to be.
Well, no, let's always write full sentences ;-)
> But now that I learned that this is the policy in Yocto and thus
> in ELDK, there's no problem following it. Just did not know yet.
Hell, Gerhard, this is a policy in human interaction :-D We always speak in full
sentences and this is also true for U-Boot, Linux, ELDK, Yocto, you name it ...
:)
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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