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Require natural English in explanatory prose - #25
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Purpose
This pull request writes the maintenance rule on natural English explanatory prose into
doc/POLICY.md, which holds the maintenance policy of this repository. The rule is part of a set of common maintenance principles that is being added to each repository where the policy does not yet state it.What changed
The new text is added once at each location. No existing rule, heading number, link, or example is removed, reworded, or renumbered.
Preserved behavior
This change touches only
doc/POLICY.md. Source code, tests, the README, the requirements and design documents, configuration, dependencies, license files, anddoc/VERSIONSare unchanged, so the behavior of the repository and its existing rules and exceptions remain as they were. Historical text is not rewritten to match the new rule.Validation
masterconsists of one commit that adds lines todoc/POLICY.mdand deletes none.git diff --checkreports no whitespace errors.No runtime tests were run, because the change is limited to a policy document and does not affect any executable code.
Version History
No version number, release entry, or tag is changed, and
doc/VERSIONSis not updated because this is a policy-only change.