UK or US spelling in manages?

[Salz, Rich]

OpenSSL is in the final stages of a *massive* cleanup of the manpages. Many of them are nit-level things, bringing them into conformance with common style, as expressed at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/man-pages.7.html

There is on notable difference: openssl uses a mix of UK and US spelling – favouring initialize and such instead of favoring initialize and such. Most manpages, and the link above, recommend US spelling. You can see the start of a discussion on this at https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10079  While I respect the Commonwealth’s impact on SSLeay and OpenSSL :), I believe the right thing is to follow US style as everyone else does.

I am asking the OMC to discuss, decide, and vote on a policy.


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