[openstack-dev] Tool for detecting commonly misspelled words

John Griffith john.griffith at solidfire.com
Tue Dec 3 19:30:10 UTC 2013


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Nachi Ueno <nachi at ntti3.com> wrote:
> 2013/12/3 John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com>:
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Nachi Ueno <nachi at ntti3.com> wrote:
>>> 2013/12/3 John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com>:
>>>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 12/03/2013 09:22 AM, Joe Gordon wrote:
>>>>>> HI all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Recently I have seen a few patches fixing a few typos.  I would like to
>>>>>> point out a really nifty tool to detect commonly misspelled words.  So
>>>>>> next time you want to fix a typo, instead of just fixing a single one
>>>>>> you can go ahead and fix a whole bunch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/lyda/misspell-check
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To install it:
>>>>>>   $ pip install misspellings
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To use it in your favorite openstack repo:
>>>>>>  $ git ls-files | grep -v locale | misspellings -f -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sample output:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://paste.openstack.org/show/54354
>>>>>
>>>>> Are we going to start gating on spellcheck of code and commit messages?  :-)
>>>>
>>>> NO please (please please please).  We have enough "grammar reviewers"
>>>> at this point already IMO and I honestly think I might puke if jenkins
>>>> fails my patch because I didn't put a '.' at the end of my comment
>>>> line in the code.  I'd much rather see us focus on things like... I
>>>> dunno... maybe having the code actually work?
>>>
>>> yeah, but may be non-voting reviews by this tool is helpful
>>
>> Fair enough... don't get me wrong I'm all for support of non-english
>> contributors etc.  I just think that the emphasis on grammar and
>> punctuation in reviews has gotten a bit out of hand as of late.  FWIW
>> I've never -1'd a patch (and never would) because somebody used "its"
>> rather than "it's" in a comment.  Or they didn't end a comment (NOT a
>> docstring) with a period.  I think it's the wrong place to spend
>> effort quite honestly.
>>
>> That being said, I realize people will continue to this sort of thing
>> (it's very important to get your -1 counts in the review stats) and
>> admittedly there is some value to spelling and grammar.  I just feel
>> that there are *real* issues and bugs that people could spend this
>> time that would actually have some significant and real benefit.
>>
>> I'm obviously in the minority on this topic so I should probably just
>> yield at this point and get on board the grammar train.
>
> May be, this is off topic.
> At first, I do agree the importance of such grammar error is not high.
> We should focus on real issues.
>
> However IMO, we should -1 for even such cases (using "its")
>
> I just send patch for fixing misspells in neutron.
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/59809/
>
> There was 50 misspells. so it is may be small mistakes for one patch,
> but it will be growing..

Ok, point taken... I'll be quiet on the subject now :)
>
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>>>>> --
>>>>> Russell Bryant
>>>>>
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