Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue Oct 18 2016 - 19:25:54 EST


On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:20:18 -0200
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > While at it, how about unifying some of the FilenamesInCamelCase,
> > filenames-with-hyphens, and filenames_with_underscores too...? To at
> > least move things towards just one of them within one directory.
>
> Sure, let's do it. I would just keep README as README.rst , as people
> are more used to see readme files on upercases.
>
> For the rest, what's your preference?
>
> - FooBar.rst
> - foo_bar.rst
> - foo-bar.rst
>
> My personal preference is for "foo-bar".

I guess that would be mine too. CamelCase is not generally all that
popular in kernel space. On one hand, I worry about further renaming
files that we're already moving; on the other, if we're going to do it, I
guess this would be the time, when people will have to look for them
anyway...

jon