Re: Definite article in synopsis

[Ben Woodcroft]

On 09/23/2016 10:15 AM, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:59:51PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> > I thought we had a policy that the synopsis field must not
> > start with an article.
> >
> > However running
> >         grep 'synopsis  *"The'  *.scm
> >
> > shows that we have many instances where this policy is
> > not followed.
> >
> > Or have I   misunderstood something?
> It's a minor issue. I think that making many small changes throughout
> the master branch will be too disruptive for what is a relatively minor
> style issue.
This is true even though changing a description doesn't trigger a rebuild?

> If the change is made, I'd prefer it on core-updates. Merging master
> into core-updates and vice versa already requires somebody to resolve a
> lot of merge conflicts. I'd rather not add to that burden.
Do you have any recommendations for changing our practices to ease this 
issue?

ben