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authorClement Ho <clemmakesapps@gmail.com>2017-12-07 20:46:05 +0000
committerJacob Schatz <jschatz@gitlab.com>2017-12-07 20:46:05 +0000
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Add documentation about using US-English
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present time and never use past tense (has been/was). For example instead
of _prohibited this user from being saved due to the following errors:_ the
text should be _sorry, we could not create your account because:_
+1. Code should be written in [US English][us-english]
This is also the style used by linting tools such as
[RuboCop](https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop),
@@ -663,6 +664,7 @@ available at [http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/1/0/](http://contributor
[GitLab Inc engineering workflow]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/workflow/#labelling-issues
[polling-etag]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/development/polling.html
[testing]: doc/development/testing_guide/index.md
+[us-english]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English
[^1]: Please note that specs other than JavaScript specs are considered backend
code.