Hm.. spelling fixes in WWN. Not sure I like that idea.
A lot of these are spelling fixes in quoted remarks. I have a long standing policy of not editing spelling mistakes. Unless it's a grammatical error so bad that it makes reading it unbearable, I don't touch it. (I can probably count the number of times I've done that on one hand.) I even question markup sometimes - lest some moron flames me later for taking their quote out of context.
Of course, I'm lazy. If I started spellchecking it probably wouldn't last long anyway.
PS. Anyone notice the interviews on WWN? Anyone have any comments or suggestions for improving them? Any particular people I need to interview that I'm forgetting? (I do have some in various stages of preparation, and a list of people I need to include.) I'll save Alexandre for last.
--------------- Brian Vincent Copper Mountain Telecom vincentb@coppercolorado.com
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Brian Vincent (C) wrote:
Hm.. spelling fixes in WWN. Not sure I like that idea.
A lot of these are spelling fixes in quoted remarks. I have a long standing policy of not editing spelling mistakes.
I can understand that but there are issues with not spell checking quoted remarks. * it's hard to spell check the regular WWN text without also spellchecking the quoted remarks. It's much easier to spellcheck everything. * if we don't spell check the WWN then each time the web site is spell checked we (I) will get lots of false positives. * WWN is one of the nicest and most important part of WineHQ and is read by many people. It would be a shame if it was also the only one with tons of typos that relect badly on the project. * also I'm not really spell checking. I'm just checking for the most obvious and the most frequent typos.
Some my position is that nobody wants their remarks to be full of typos and fixing these obvious typos uniformly accross the web site is simpler and makes it nicer to read.
For reference, here's the script I use. Note that it is generic and works just as well on a web site (I've used it on other web sites, not just WineHQ) and on the Wine source (and other project's sources such as the Linux kernel source for instance ;-). I'm even starting to think that their could be room for such a utility somewhere due to the very low false positive rate (especially compared to a true spell checker that I would expect to choke on mtrr, WWN, win32, etc.).
--- cut here --- #!/bin/sh
mygrep() { dir="$1" shift find "$dir" -follow -name CVS -prune -o -name linklint -prune -o ( ! -name '*~' -a ! -name '.#*' -a ! -name '*.diff' -a ! -name '*.gif' -a ! -name '*.jpg' -a ! -name '*.o' -a ! -name '*.png' -a ! -name '*.so' ) -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep "$@" }
if [ "$1" != "" ] then dir="$1" shift else dir="." fi
mygrep "$dir" "$@" -E -i "(icaly|necces|necesar|(less|more) then|procces|reciev)" mygrep "$dir" "$@" -E -i -w "(acc?eptible|adress?|appartments?|arithmatic|automaticly|careful[ly]|cateogor(y|ies)|comands?|(in|un)?compatab(le|ility|ilities)|(dis)?continous(ly)?|debug(ing|ed|er)|effecien(t|cy)|existan(t|ce)|extentions?|grammer|happends?|(un)?marshal(ed|ing)|oportunit(y|ies)|paramaters?|privi?lages?|seperat(e(d|s)?|ing|ions?|ors?)|somewere|subscribtions?|succesful(ly)?|sucess?ful(ly)?|thier|wierd|(over|re)?writen)" --- cut here ---
Brian Vincent (C) wrote:
... PS. Anyone notice the interviews on WWN? Anyone have any comments or suggestions for improving them? Any particular people I need to interview that I'm forgetting? (I do have some in various stages of preparation, and a list of people I need to include.) I'll save Alexandre for last.
I've read all of them, and they have been very good. About all that I would consider to be missing are pictures, though maybe not everyone would want that :-)
Brian Vincent C wrote:
PS. Anyone notice the interviews on WWN?
Yes..... I have read all of them :)
Anyone have any comments or suggestions for improving them? Any particular people I need to interview that I'm forgetting?
Dmitry, Greg, Aric, Gav, Francois, Lionel, Jukka, J Newman, Vincent, Shachar, Jason, Rahpeal, Nog, Rok, Huw, ME !!! and some im sure that memory has missed but never forgot.............
(I do have some in various stages of preparation, and a list of people I need to include.) I'll save Alexandre for last.
Yea.......... last so you can put the real pressure on him :))
Tom
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