WikiStyleGuide

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 12:49 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> On 14.10.2010 19:41, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 00:39 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> >> Matt has created a new wiki page
> >>
> >>   http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WikiStyleGuide
> >>
> >> which mandates to use book capitalization for page and section titles.
> >>
> >> Wikipedia capitalizes only the first character on page and section
> >> titles (e.g. [1], see also [2]).
> > 
> > I ACKed this suggestion on IRC yesterday. I presume you know where to
> > find the edit button.
> > 
> 
> You seem to disagree with what you said above:
> 
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/TimeBasedReleasePlan?action=diff&rev2=10&rev1=9

Not at all. It matches the style guide as it was at the time of the edit
(and I hadn't noticed you'd just touched it). And my position has always
explicitly been that the details of the style guide are less important
than it existing and people aiming to comply with it.

Kevin changed it thusly after yesterday's discussion and I thanked him:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WikiStyleGuide?action=diff&rev2=2&rev1=1

We apparently both missed your point about page titles! But frankly, I'm
pretty happy with the current state of capitalization rules and would
like to move on now.

In the future, if you're worried that you shouldn't edit 'canonical'
pages from me, here are a couple possible processes that you can follow:

- propose a change on IRC
- if I ACK it, make the change

- make a change
- show the diff to me on IRC
- If I don't like it, one of us can revert it

Choose whichever you're comfortable with. But this position that you
won't make changes to stuff I've put on the wiki even after I give you
permission is just silly. Me being the sole maintainer of everything I
put on the wiki is obviously not going to work any more than me being
sole maintainer of all the source files I've put in our codebase.

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