> On Apr 22, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Bernd Schmidt <bernds_...@t-online.de> wrote: > > (Apologies if you get this twice, the mailing list didn't like the html > attachment in the first attempt). > > We frequently get malformatted patches, and it's been brought to my attention > that some people don't even make the effort to read the GNU coding standards > before trying to contribute code. TL;DR seems to be the excuse, and while I > find that attitude inappropriate, we could probably improve the situation by > spelling out the most basic rules in an abridged document on our webpages. > Below is a draft I came up with. Thoughts?
Would you expect people to conform to the abridged version or the full standard? If the full standard, then publishing an abridged version is not a good idea, it will just cause confusion. Let the full standard be the rule, make people read it, and if they didn't bother that's their problem. paul