Re: [PATCH] Add ACL (Access Control List) acronym - Mailing list pgsql-hackers
From | David G. Johnston |
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Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add ACL (Access Control List) acronym |
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Msg-id | CAKFQuwYEX9Pj9G0ZHJeWSmSbnqUyGH+FYcW-66eZjfVG4KOjiQ@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: [PATCH] Add ACL (Access Control List) acronym ("Joel Jacobson" <joel@compiler.org>) |
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Re: [PATCH] Add ACL (Access Control List) acronym
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List | pgsql-hackers |
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 7:52 AM Joel Jacobson <joel@compiler.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024, at 02:59, David G. Johnston wrote:
> Though there was no comment on the fact we should be linking to:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access-control_list
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> not:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Control_List
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> to avoid the dis-ambiguation redirect.
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> If we are making wikipedia our authority we might as well use their
> standard for naming.
Good point.
Want me to fix that or will the committer handle that?
I found some more similar cases in acronyms.sgml.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Modules
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_authentication_module
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Manipulation_Language
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_manipulation_language
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLTP
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_transaction_processing
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Definition_Language
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_definition_language
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORDBMS
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_database
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMT
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database_management_system
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database#RDBMS
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olap
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issn
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_analytical_processing
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C++
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbms
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database#Database_management_system
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf8
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#SSL_1.0,_2.0,_and_3.0
Below is the script I used to find them,
which also reports some additional false positives:
Given this I'd be OK with committing as-is in the name of matching existing project style. Then bringing up this inconsistency as a separate concern to be bulk fixed as part of implementing a new policy on what to check for and conform to when establishing acronyms in our documentation.
Otherwise the author (you) should make the change here - the committer wouldn't be expected to know to do that from the discussion.
David J.
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