<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Tom Fifield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@openstack.org" target="_blank">tom@openstack.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 11/11/14 10:22, Anne Gentle wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Tom Fifield <<a href="mailto:tom@openstack.org">tom@openstack.org</a><br>
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> On 11/11/14 10:19, Anne Gentle wrote:<br>
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> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Tom Fifield <<a href="mailto:tom@openstack.org">tom@openstack.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:tom@openstack.org">tom@openstack.org</a>><br>
</span><span class="">> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:tom@openstack.org">tom@openstack.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:tom@openstack.org">tom@openstack.org</a>>>> wrote:<br>
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> > Hi,<br>
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> > If I recall correctly, there was not consensus on this in the past.<br>
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> > I have removed it, for now, on that basis.<br>
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> > Okay, let's start the discussion here then.<br>
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> > I remember agreeing to American English for the Operations Guide.<br>
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> Actually, we agreed on the Atlantic standard :)<br>
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> > Can we agree to American English for the openstack-manuals?<br>
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> Actually, I don't think we need to agree on any standard.<br>
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> I'd like to have a convention to point to during reviews. Today I<br>
> requested a revision of colours to colors and it would be great to point<br>
> new contributors to a standard to follow.<br>
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</span>I don't think this is useful or necessary at all. Adding such a standard<br>
just means more pointless patchset revisions, wasting time of all<br>
involved - which should be spent on fixing the enormous bug backlog.<br>
<span class=""><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Okay. Guess we'll have to disagree on this point. With the contributor base we hope to reach I think we'll need the enhanced style guide that Andreas is working on. </div><div><br></div><div>Again, the large bug backlog is due to the growth of projects, and we need to onboard more contributors in order to get those numbers down and better distributed.</div><div><br></div><div>Anne</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
><br></span></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> Anne<br>
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> > Regards,<br>
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> > Tom<br>
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> > On 11/11/14 03:52, Anne Gentle wrote:<br>
> > > Hi all,<br>
> > > In the past we have had consensus around using American English<br>
> > > spellings, so I added it to the Conventions page here:<br>
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> > <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/Conventions#Terms_and_usage" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/Conventions#Terms_and_usage</a><br>
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> > > Wanted to bring it to the list to make sure it's generally known.<br>
> > > Thanks,<br>
> > > Anne<br>
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