Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: submit-checklist: change to autonumbered lists

[Randy Dunlap]

On 3/3/24 07:55, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>>> -1) If you use a facility then #include the file that defines/declares
>>> +#. If you use a facility then #include the file that defines/declares
>>>     that facility.  Don't depend on other header files pulling in ones
>>>     that you use.
>>
>> Wait.  This will render the list starting from:
>>
>>     1. If you use ...
>>

I have already said that Stephen Rothwell wanted this #1 item to be at the
top of the checklist. That makes it easy to tell people to "see submit-checklist
item #1".


>> In patch 1/1, you didn't change the ")".
>>
>> It was Jani who suggested "#.", but "#)" would work just fine.
> 
> So I'm a little confused.  Is the objection that it renders the number
> as "1." rather than "1)"?  That doesn't seem like the biggest of deals,
> somehow, but am I missing something?
> 
> A bigger complaint I might raise is that auto-numbering restarts the
> enumeration in each subsection, so we have a lot of steps #1, which is a
> definite change from before.

ack

> That, of course, can be fixed by giving an explicit starting number in
> each subsection, partially defeating the point of the change in the
> first place.

ack

> I honestly have to wonder: does this document need the enumerated list
> at all?  We don't refer to the numbers anywhere, so I don't think there
> is much useful information there.  How about just using regular bulleted
> lists instead?

That also works.

> That said, I don't have strong feelings one way or the other, and can
> certainly apply it as-is if that's the consensus on what we should do.

My preference is to leave the submit-checklist numbered from 1 to N,
without a repeated #1 in each section. But I'm not hung up on it.

thanks.
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#Randy