<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>We have contributors submit patches [1] about switching over from 'source' to  '.'. Frankly, it is a bit confused for reviewers to review those patches since it is unclear what are the rationals of the change. By tracing down to the patch [2] that introduced this convention, unfortunately, it doesn't help since there is not too much information in the commit message. Moreover, this convention doesn't seem to be followed very well in the community. I saw devstack is still using 'source' instead of '.' [3], which contradicts to what the docs said [4].</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone can clarify the rationals of this convention, it will be really helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/543155/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/543155/</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/304545/3">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/304545/3</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack/blob/master/stack.sh#L592">https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack/blob/master/stack.sh#L592</a></div><div>[4] <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/doc-contrib-guide/writing-style/code-conventions">https://docs.openstack.org/doc-contrib-guide/writing-style/code-conventions</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Hongbin</div></div>