Re: Read-only vs read only vs readonly

On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 8:10 AM Kyotaro Horiguchi
<horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> At Thu, 2 Sep 2021 22:07:02 +0000, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com> wrote in
> > On 9/2/21, 11:30 AM, "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> > > I had a customer point out to me that we're inconsistent in how we
> > > spell read-only. Turns out we're not as inconsistent as I initially
> > > thought :), but that they did manage to spot the one actual log
> > > message we have that writes it differently than everything else -- but
> > > that broke their grepping...
> > >
> > > Almost everywhere we use read-only. Attached patch changes the one log
> > > message where we didn't, as well as a few places in the docs for it. I
> > > did not bother with things like comments in the code.
> > >
> > > Two questions:
> > >
> > > 1. Is it worth fixing? Or just silly nitpicking?
> >
> > It seems entirely reasonable to me to consistently use "read-only" in
> > the log messages and documentation.
> >
> > > 2. What about translations? This string exists in translations --
> > > should we just "fix" it there, without touching the translated string?
> > > Or try to fix both? Or leave it for the translators who will get a
> > > diff on it?
> >
> > I don't have a strong opinion, but if I had to choose, I would say to
> > leave it to the translators to decide.
>
> +1 for both. As a translator, it seems that that kind of changes are
> usual. Many changes about full-stops, spacings, capitalizing and so
> happen especially at near-release season like now.

Thanks for the input. I've applied this and back-patched to 14 since
it's not out yet and there is translation still do be done. I didn't
backpatch it further back than that to avoid the need for translation
updates there.

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