changeset 5432:a4c0fe15a6f1

docs: contributing.rst clarification of American English and Title Casing
author Mads Kiilerich <madski@unity3d.com>
date Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:28:58 +0200
parents 7b780f5f5cab
children fbbe80e3322b
files docs/contributing.rst
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/docs/contributing.rst	Mon Aug 24 16:50:43 2015 +0200
+++ b/docs/contributing.rst	Wed Aug 26 17:28:58 2015 +0200
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@
 Commit messages should have a leading short line summarizing the changes. For
 bug fixes, put ``(Issue #123)`` at the end of this line.
 
+Use American English grammar and spelling overall. Use `English title case`_ for
+page titles, button labels, headers, and 'labels' for fields in forms.
+
+.. _English title case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization#Title_case
+
 Contributions will be accepted in most formats -- such as pull requests on
 bitbucket, something hosted on your own Kallithea instance, or patches sent by
 email to the `kallithea-general`_ mailing list.