Re: Codespell report for "Wget" (on fossies.org)

[Fossies Administrator]

Hi Tim,

> The typos are fixed now, a script 'spell-checking' has been added and is
> used in the CI now.

That seems to be a good idea.

I hope the "pressure" wasn't too high and I'm happy that I could help
a little bit on this not too important topic.

And thanks for your friendly and motivating words.

Jens  (a longtime and pleased wget user)

> On 2/20/20 4:01 PM, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> > Hi Jens,
> >
> > quite a nice service, thank you for all that work. It's awesome !
> >
> > We are aware of codespell but so far only use it as a CI check for
> > Wget2[1]. We didn't bother to backport the script yet to Wget 1.x.
> > See [2] and [3].
> >
> > Indeed we plan for a new release - so you put some pressure on us to
> > correct all those misspellings now :-)
> >
> > We will not correct words in "ChangeLog", as this is automatically
> > generated from git commit messages. And we can't change git commit
> > messages as this would destroy history (blockchain, you know ;-)).
> >
> > There is also m4/po.m4 that we won't change, as it is from gettext.
> >
> > Regards, Tim
> >
> > [1] https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2
> > [2] https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/blob/master/contrib/spell-checker
> > [3] https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml#L74
> >
> >
> > On 2/20/20 11:19 AM, Fossies Administrator wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > the FOSS server fossies.org - also supporting "Wget" - offers a new
> > > feature "Source code misspelling reports":
> > >
> > >  https://fossies.org/features.html#codespell
> > >
> > > Such reports are normally only generated on request, but as Fossies
> > > administrator I have just created an analysis for the current "Wget"
> > > release 1.20.3 (since a new release seems coming soon):
> > >
> > >  https://fossies.org/linux/www/wget/codespell.html
> > >
> > > That version-independent (not linked) URL should redirect always to the
> > > last report (if available), so currently to
> > >
> > >  https://fossies.org/linux/www/wget-1.20.3.tar.lz/codespell.html
> > >
> > > Although after a first review some obviously wrong matches ("false
> > > positives") are already filtered out (ignored) please inform me if you
> > > find more of them so that I can force a new improved check if applicable.
> > >
> > > Just for information there are also two supplemental pages
> > >
> > >  https://fossies.org/linux/misc/wget/codespell_conf.html
> > >
> > > showing some used "codespell" configurations and
> > >
> > >  https://fossies.org/linux/misc/wget/codespell_fps.html
> > >
> > > Although except for the "usual" errors in the ChangeLog file only few
> > > and unspectacular errors are found I hope that the report can be
> > > nevertheless a little bit helpful.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Jens