Hi, Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 16.10.05 23:46:21: > I just want to make this clear, so replying to d-www and to Nicolas, > as it was his check-in that made me wonder... > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:25:32AM -0600, Debian WWW CVS wrote: > > Modified files: > > english/vote/2005: Log-debian-dpl-debate.wml > > > > Log message: > > typo > > Do we fix typos and the like in those "historical documents", i.e. in > transcripts and individual mails?
Yes we do. See Matt's mail http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2004/03/msg00208.html, where he notes, that the Chicago Manual of Style supports this for obvious typos. Also: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2004/08/msg00281.html (Now I know that the proposed fix s/can not/cannot/ is wrong, or at least not necessary.) Nevertheless I agree that it's not useful to change IRC logs. It's often very hard to find a single line in such documents which doesn't contain at least five typos :-) Correcting an important string such as a name is maybe worth to be fixed. > I mean, there are plenty of mistakes in <News/weekly/*/*/mail.wml> and mail.wml are often important and in a good quality so I always fixed typos there. I also fixed from time to time ugly mail encodings such as =20= strings (or similar). All these changes may invalidate a signed mail, but since WML needs escaping of special characters nobody assumes that the GPG sign matchs. I remember that I was many years ago incommunicative because of my bad English. I really hope that other persons fix my broken English as well in current documents/archives/... when possible. > in some logs / transcripts below <vote>, but I always considered > correcting them to be an act of correcting history, thus possibly > creating a false image of the past... If a mail refers to project leader XZY whereas his name is XYZ many persons will notice that this is a typo. But readers will maybe not notice this in 10 years, so I support fixing it ... Jens ______________________________________________________________________ XXL-Speicher, PC-Virenschutz, Spartarife & mehr: Nur im WEB.DE Club! Jetzt gratis testen! http://freemail.web.de/home/landingpad/?mc=021130 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
