On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:18:10AM -0500, Worley, Dale R (Dale) wrote:
I would expect that the idnits rules change only very slowly. What is the
real story on that?
They seem to change more quickly than people realise. Also, of
course, a whole bunch of changes can go by between a given
contributor's last I-D, and a current one. Not all the changes are
intentional; they're often pretty clearly based on heuristics that as
often as not look to me like they're derived from what certain tools
do. So then if someone submits something that doesn't do exactly what
those tools do, they get a false failure.
Note that none of this is to attack the tools developers. I've ranted
before about the absurdity of checking the formatting of early drafts
for perfection, so I won't bother again.
A
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