[FFmpeg-cvslog] r21073 - trunk/libavfilter/avfilter.h

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:45:50AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 01:42:22AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:02:11AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>> > > On date Thursday 2010-01-07 23:57:33 +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> > > > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:44:33PM +0100, stefano wrote:
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > Log:
>> > > > > Fix doxy, use third person.
>> > > > 
>> > > > I made up my mind, I hate it.
>> > > 
>> > > That was discussed long time ago, and we decided to comply with
>> > > JavaDoc recommendations.
>> > 
>> > I faintly remember something, but I never liked it in the first place.
>> > 
>> > I just compared POSIX docs and looked at a few random man pages.  The
>> > former is completely written in nonpersonal form, the latter mostly.
>> > 
>> > > That said, if you want to convert each doxy
>> > > to impersonal form I won't object - my only request is to keep it
>> > > consistent - but that would be higly wasted time I think.
>> > 
>> > We have more doxy in non-third-person form than the other way around.
>> > So the wasted time is being spent on making things less consistent
>> > right now.  But let's leave this aside for now.
>> > 
>> > I've just asked around on IRC, a majority of native speakers agrees
>> > with me.
>> 
>> A vote should be done on the ML and not exclude any developers
>> my oppinon is that i prefer 3rd person 
>
> We reach the point where the great unwashed[1] use voting to gang up on
> experts[2].  It only took a few months to get to this point, congrats!

May I kindly suggest you all[1] go and write for wikipedia instead?

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