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Re: Support "Reviewed by" in addition to "Review by" in log messages

From: Peter Samuelson <peter_at_p12n.org>
Date: 2006-02-10 00:33:32 CET

[Garrett Rooney]
> If the script can be made to support the commonly used phrasing for
> these things then go for it, it's so much better than being overly
> anal about the exact wording people use.

OTOH, don't go overboard. If you write some sort of natural language
parser that accepts almost anything, two years from now people will
look at the varied log messages and not realise that the format is
machine-parsed at all. Then they'll outsmart the parser without even
noticing it. The status quo *looks* machine-parsable, so it should
make people think about that.

Received on Fri Feb 10 00:34:02 2006

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