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Hi,

I never had a strong opinion on this but reading what Jay said makes
sense to me. I also like Robert suggestion about having a single +2/+A
for such small changes.

Cheers,
Lucas

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On 26 February 2015 at 05:26, Ruby Loo <rlooyahoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering what people thought about patches that only fix grammatical
>> issues or misspellings in comments in our code.
>>
>> I can't believe I'm sending out this email, but as a group, I'd like it if
>> we had  a similar understanding so that we treat all patches in a similar
>> (dare I say it, consistent) manner. I've seen negative votes and positive
>> (approved) votes for similar patches. Right now, I look at such submitted
>> patches and ignore them, because I don't know what the fairest thing is. I
>> don't feel right that a patch that was previously submitted gets a -2,
>> whereas another patch gets a +A.
>>
>> To be clear, I think that anything that is user-facing like (log, exception)
>> messages or our documentation should be cleaned up. (And yes, I am fine
>> using British or American English or a mix here.)
>>
>> What I'm wondering about are the fixes to docstrings and inline comments
>> that aren't externally visible.
>>
>> On one hand, It is great that someone submits a patch so maybe we should
>> approve it, so as not to discourage the submitter. On the other hand, how
>> useful are such submissions. It has already been suggested (and maybe
>> discussed to death) that we should approve patches if there are only nits.
>> These grammatical and misspellings fall under nits. If we are explicitly
>> saying that it is OK to merge these nits, then why fix them later, unless
>> they are part of a patch that does more than only address those nits?
>>
>> I realize that it would take me less time to approve the patches than to
>> write this email, but I wanted to know what the community thought. Some
>> rule-of-thumb would be helpful to me.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I think improvements are improvements and we should welcome them - and
> allow single +2/+A so long as they are not touching code.
>
> -Rob
>
>
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