On 29/12/2015 07:15, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:51:01PM +0100, Jörg Knobloch wrote: >> On 28/12/2015 23:45, Mike Hommey wrote: >>> We're not investing time and effort, that's the core problem... >>> we're essentially letting it rot, without updating with newer >>> upstream versions, which is time and effort on its own. >> Well, >> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/log/tip/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/hunspell/en-US.dic >> >> >> >> >> >> says something else. > > 58 changesets in 2 years, that's a little more than 2 changesets a > month, I wouldn't call that time and effort, when a lot of them are > adding one word. > >> I'm still looking how the size of the en-US.dic file shrank from >> 610KB to 586KB. Someone invested time and effort to lose content >> and make things worse. > > Because, we have, in fact, imported a new upstream version. The drop > in size comes from bug 1137544, which is an upstream import...
(In reply to Kevin Atkinson from comment #34) > I looked up these words in the upstream tool to see why a word is not > in the dictionary: > http://app.aspell.net/lookup?dict=en_US&words=relict%0D%0Aresiduary%0D%0Aenforceability%0D%0Aadvisor%0D%0Ainfeasible > "advisor" is a spelling variant of adviser and per my policy I > generally only include one variant of a spelling to promote > consistent spelling in the official dictionary. If Mozilla wants to > include common variants this can likely be fixed with a little > effort in the build scripts. Time to fork! Like the en-GB dictionary on AMO has vastly more words (190.000+)that the official upstream. Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
