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Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] acronyms vs. names

Kevin, some of the PR comments I've seen suggest that you have some guidelines
in mind.  Have you written them down somewhere?

Bill Shannon wrote on 7/8/19 5:11 PM:
> Some of you were busy while those of us in the US enjoyed the holiday weekend!  :-)
> 
> I found 300 messages in my mailbox this morning.  I haven't gotten through
> even half of them yet, but one issue has become apparent...
> 
> Do we intend that everyone replaces all uses of acronyms with the
> full specification name in all of our specifications, javadocs, etc.?
> The approved acronym guidelines do not require that, so this is mostly
> a question of style.  With different people updating different parts of
> the platform spec, for example, it would be helpful to have guidelines
> that everyone applied equally so that we end up with a consistent style.
> 
> If there was a message explaining the guidelines, sorry if I haven't
> gotten to it yet...
> 


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