Hello, On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:02:37PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stepan Kasal wrote on Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 06:13:50PM CET: > > I though it's a problem of present vs. past tense, not active/passive voice. > > > > The changelog informs about what _was done_ so there is no reason to use > > present tense or imperative. > > I must confess to not have been sure whether it was present vs past, or > active vs passive.
interestingly enough, Alexandre witnesses that Akim said we shall use imperatives. > Anyway, personally I don't care much, [...] Neither do I. When I don't think about it, I tend to use impperative, which corresponds with Alexandre's requirement. > FWIW, info standards "Simple Changes" contains: > | * keyboard.c (Fcommand_execute): New arg SPECIAL. > | All callers changed. Well, this phrase seems to be an exception: I tend to use it, not "change all callers". Stepan
