[openstack-dev] [Nova] nova-specs

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Wed Apr 16 18:16:30 UTC 2014


On 04/16/2014 01:56 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
>> Do we really want to -1 for spelling mistake in nova-specs?
> 
> I do, yes. These documents are intended to be read by deployers and
> future developers. I think it's really important that they're useful in
> that regard.
> 
>> This is really a bad news for non-native speaker like me because I'm 
>> really not sensitive to the spelling even after checking again and 
>> again.
> 
> Well, I certainly understand it can be frustrating. When I do it, I
> provide the proper spelling in my comment, and I think I've been
> generally pretty responsive to re-reviewing things quickly when it was
> just a spelling error. Usually, however, there is something else to go
> wrong with the -1 so it needs to be respun anyway.

Agreed.  Hopefully most things can be caught with a spell check tool.  I
do think we should be lenient on minor grammar issues, unless the
mistake is serious enough to impact understanding.

-- 
Russell Bryant



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