Bazaar-NG Traffic #3 Prerelease

[John A Meinel]

James Blackwell wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:48:00AM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:05:40AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
>>
>>>If we ever have more than one person with the same first name I think
>>>you could just say their whole name repeatedly.
>>
>>I think just using the first letter of the last name is enough,
>>and it reads friendlier.
>
>
> I'll go with a derivative of Martin's suggestion:
>
> * Full name on first mention, always
> * First name only, when no conflict in that traffic for that name
> * Full name for both when there is a conflict.
>
> As a side note, referring to last name is a common convention in the
> American version of :
>
>   * Newspapers
>   * References in non-fiction
>   * Graduate Thesis' (Thesii? Thesises?)
>      * Philosophy
>      * Logic & Debate
>      * Physics
>      * History
>      * Literature
>

I just wanted to agree that this is the standard for most forms of
(non-fiction) print in the US. Or really any formal setting.

But I don't know how formal we want the bzr traffic to be. I'm fine with
a more relaxed form if people feel better about it.

John
=:->

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