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

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

 -George

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