Proposed addition to the mail section of the handbook

[Tom Rhodes]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:08:36 -0800
underway at comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote:

> Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> writes:
> 
> > This looks authoritative:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style-word-list.html
> 
> Is anyone besides me suprised to see that page?
> 
> I'd like to know something about its history.  Some words about FDP
> governance would be welcome too; it seems I haven't figured it out in
> three years.  (I've looked for info on both at www.freebsd.org, even
> using the CVS and list search tools, but didn't find anything useful
> with a reasonable amount of effort.)

To my recollection, this was in place before I became a committer.

Its main purpose is to keep disputes over the alternate spellings of
some words to a minimum.

-- 
Tom Rhodes