Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] CODING_STYLE: Allow single-sentence comments without full stops

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:56 PM, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>> George Dunlap writes ("[PATCH] CODING_STYLE: Allow single-sentence comments 
>> without full stops"):
>>> One of the common ways in which contributors trip up over the
>>> CODING_STYLE guides is by not putting a full stop at the end of a
>>> comment when there is only a single sentence.  Calling these out is a
>>> waste of everybody's time: The full stop at the end of a comment with
>>> a single sentence (or a single phrase) adds absolutely nothing to the
>>> legibility of the code.
>>>
>>> Modify CODING_STYLE to allow comments with a single sentence or
>>> sentence fragment to either have a full stop or not, while making it
>>> clear that comments with multiple sentences must have a full stop at
>>> the end of each sentence.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Seriously ?
>>
>> Yes, the bike shed can be purple with occasional mauve.
>>
>> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks Ian.
>
> The other comments so far don't seem to be objections to this
> relaxation, but about whether standards should be relaxed further.  If
> I don't hear any objections by Monday I'll check this patch in and let
> others submit follow-on patches if they want.

And pushed.

 -George

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