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John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 21 17:28:43 UTC 2020


On 12/17/20 12:58 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 17:35, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> The only one I'm not a fan of is the lack of punctuation for the first
>> sentence.  Newspaper headlines also use additional capitalization
>> (e.g. last word and "significant words"), so the current recommendation
>> is a mix of things and not fully consistent with either one.
> 
> Fair point - considering the first line as one would an email subject
> is probably the best approach.

I agree.  Perhaps just say that (rather than newspaper headline) and leave
off the note about punctuation.

-- 
John Baldwin


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