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bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer lib
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers |
Date: |
Sun, 23 May 2021 12:31:39 +0300 |
> From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
> Cc: 48592@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 10:43:40 +0200
>
> >> this also adds support for using "Authors" and "Maintainers" as the
> >> names of the header fields instead of just the singular forms.
> >
> > Why do we need these additions?
>
> OCD and grammar.
>
> > Couldn't we keep using Author and Maintainer?
>
> Of course. But why?
To keep Emacs smaller and less complex.
> > Having both variants immediately begs the question which is preferable
> > and why, arguments about style, and other bikeshedding.
>
> The answer seems obvious to me. Do it like (nearly?) all natural
> languages do it: If n=1 then singular, else (n>1) plural.
>
> > Unless there's a good reason for adding new headings, I'd prefer to
> > make do with what we already have.
>
> Grammatical mistakes tend to be distracting, especially if you see the
> same one over and over again, year after year.
>
> I was expecting this to be noncontroversial. ;)
See above.
But maybe I'm the odd one out here. Does anyone else have an opinion
on adding these headers?
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/22
- bug#48592: [PATCH 1/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/22
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Colin Baxter, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Michael Albinus, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Michael Albinus, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Michael Albinus, 2021/05/24
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/24
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/24
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Christopher Dimech, 2021/05/24