Re: 76 character widths for board reports?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:17 PM, John D. Ament john.d.am...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if serious or calling Roman and Marvin youngin's Who's he calling a youngin? In Soviet Russia my first computer played on me! Thanks, Roman. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: 76 character widths for board reports?
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Is this really necessary? Yes. The Board minutes, which include all reports, are formatted as plain text every month. ^^ rationale ... Cutting and pasting directly from a Wiki is not acceptable due to formatting issues. Line lengths should be limited to 77 characters. I think we may have actually rejected one, in the past, for being unreadable due to wiki formatting crap (thus, the need to-clarify / for-the-rule). ... Cheers, -g
Re: 76 character widths for board reports?
Not sure if serious or calling Roman and Marvin youngin's On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Is this really necessary? Speaking as one who actually coded on punched cards on an octal based computer, I feel indignant that you young whippersnappers don't appreciate the hard won freedoms us older coders have brought to the younger generations. Regards, Alan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: 76 character widths for board reports?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Is this really necessary? The Board minutes, which include all reports, are formatted as plain text every month. If the reports aren't formatted by the time the Board gets them, then the Board members have to clean them up. Brett and Sam spend a bunch of time every month on this stuff. The following quote is taken from one of the reminder emails which get sent out each month: Cutting and pasting directly from a Wiki is not acceptable due to formatting issues. Line lengths should be limited to 77 characters. (; Does a 77 character allotment instead of 76 make things ok? ;) If we ever get to the point where Incubator reports are submitted via web form, I hope to contribute some code which performs word wrapping and indenting automatically so that the Report Manager doesn't have to worry over this. It'll be tricky though because people use different bullet styles... I dunno, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Speaking as one who actually coded on punched cards on an octal based computer, I feel indignant that you young whippersnappers don't appreciate the hard won freedoms us older coders have brought to the younger generations. I think NASA makes Mattmann use one of those for his email. Marvin Humphrey - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: 76 character widths for board reports?
Yep..I'm on a mainframe right now :) I've written a program to emulate me: ./long-ass-messedup-wrapping-emails.py Check out my apachestuff Github it's in there.. ++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++ -Original Message- From: Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 10:02 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: 76 character widths for board reports? On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Alan D. Cabrera l...@toolazydogs.com wrote: Is this really necessary? The Board minutes, which include all reports, are formatted as plain text every month. If the reports aren't formatted by the time the Board gets them, then the Board members have to clean them up. Brett and Sam spend a bunch of time every month on this stuff. The following quote is taken from one of the reminder emails which get sent out each month: Cutting and pasting directly from a Wiki is not acceptable due to formatting issues. Line lengths should be limited to 77 characters. (; Does a 77 character allotment instead of 76 make things ok? ;) If we ever get to the point where Incubator reports are submitted via web form, I hope to contribute some code which performs word wrapping and indenting automatically so that the Report Manager doesn't have to worry over this. It'll be tricky though because people use different bullet styles... I dunno, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Speaking as one who actually coded on punched cards on an octal based computer, I feel indignant that you young whippersnappers don't appreciate the hard won freedoms us older coders have brought to the younger generations. I think NASA makes Mattmann use one of those for his email. Marvin Humphrey - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
