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This had bugged me as well recently, so it¹s good to see we have it
solidly defined somewhere. The lack of consistency between 'back end' and
'back-end¹ still looks messy to me, but I suppose it can¹t be helped when
the english language is to blame!

Thanks

John




On 12/13/15, 5:09 PM, "Alexandra Settle" <alexandra.settle at RACKSPACE.COM>
wrote:

>Thanks Kato!
>
>On 14/12/2015 9:45 am, "KATO Tomoyuki" <tomo at dream.daynight.jp> wrote:
>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I would just like to clarify the use of back-end vs. back end.
>>>
>>> In the past we have corrected patches to use the two separate words,
>>>'back end' as that is what the IBM Style Guide uses.
>>>
>>> However it appears now in the contributor guide,
>>>http://docs.openstack.org/contributor-guide/writing-style/word-choice.ht
>>>m
>>>l it appears we have reverted back to back-end.
>>>
>>> Apparently there has been a mailing list discussion about this before
>>>however I cannot seem to find the history - so if someone is able to
>>>fill me in, that would be great!
>>
>>Hi Alex,
>>
>>See the thread:
>>http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-docs/2014-March/004089.htm
>>l
>>
>>KATO Tomoyuki
>
>
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