Bug #78880 [Csd]: Spelling error report

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78880&edit=1 ID: 78880 User updated by: admin at fossies dot org Reported by: admin at fossies dot org Summary: Spelling error report Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: *General Issues PHP Version: master Assigned To: cmb Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I agree that fixing code mistakes is more important than fixing spelling mistakes. The word Produkt is now ignored. The word alloced was already marked by Fossies as "Sloppy short computer slang" but is now also generally ignored. The word dereferencable seems to be a real misspelling but is now marked as "Common misspelling in programmer jargon". Problematic for me as PHP-layman is the decision which directories are to be ignored. After your remark I tried firstly to ignore the "ext"-subdirectory completely assuming the name means "external" but looking deeper in the according files I found mostly a PHP copyright. So it means probably rather "extension" and I searched til depth 2 for subdirectories without a PHP copyright ending with date/lib fileinfo/libmagic intl/collator intl/common intl/converter intl/dateformat intl/formatter intl/grapheme intl/locale intl/msgformat intl/normalizer intl/resourcebundle intl/spoofchecker intl/transliterator intl/uchar pcre/pcre2lib Since your mentioned bundled libraries seems included in the above list that directories are now also ignored (excluded). Here the spelling error results with the old and the new codespell configuration: spelling error false positives PHP occurrences types occurrences types 7.4.1 1473 308 1873 104 ("old" config) 1385 271 1771 97 ("new" config) f8f48ce.191129 1247 313 1914 107 ("old" config) 1157 276 1812 101 ("new" config) dabc28d.191221 520 296 1914 107 ("old" config) 432 259 1812 101 ("new" config) Here for completeness the current Fossies codespell report URLs: https://fossies.org/linux/www/php/codespell.html (https://fossies.org/linux/www/php-7.4.1.tar.xz/codespell.html) https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.tar.gz/codespell.html (https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master-dabc28d.191221.tar.gz/codespell.html) (https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master-f8f48ce.191129.tar.gz/codespell_fps.html) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-12-21 11:10:42] cmb@php.net Thanks again for having created the codespell report and for having opened this bug ticket! Overall, I think it is a useful tool, although fixing every single spelling mistake is a lot of effort which can be spend more reasonably on other tasks. Still I fixed a lot of mistakes, and the spelling mistake count may now roughly be halfed. I didn't notice any real false positives reported by codespell, but for instance, Produkt must not be fixed for the reported cases, because it's used to test a German translation. Also, words like alloced and dereferencable don't appear to be outright wrong (at least the former seems not uncommon in programmer jargon). Finally, there have been some correctly indentified spelling mistakes regarding some of our bundled libraries (e.g. libpcre2, libgd, timelib). Fixing these in the bundled libraries doesn't make sense, since the mistakes would be reintroduced which every update. Instead it might be sensible to report these spelling mistakes upstream. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-12-21 11:09:46] cmb@php.net Automatic comment on behalf of cmbecker69@gmx.de Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=dabc28d18245086a68c88d50dfba380ebd60a236 Log: Fix #78880: Spelling error report ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-12-02 16:31:16] cmb@php.net Thanks for checking master! I think at least some of these typos should be addressed; I'll do so as soon as possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-11-29 17:26:43] admin at fossies dot org That's seems reasonable. So here the new report https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.tar.gz/codespell.html that redirects currently to https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master-f8f48ce.191129.tar.gz/codespell.html Also I removed some more obvious False Positives (a.o. machanism, crypted, aline, childs, trys). Unfortunately I'm not familiar with PHP itself so my valuations may not always be correct. So it may also meaningful for the experts to look at the supplemental pages https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.tar.gz/codespell_conf.html showing some used codesspell configurations and https://fossies.org/linux/test/php-src-master.tar.gz/codespell_fps.html showing all resulting False Positives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-11-29 12:38:16] cmb@php.net Thanks for the report, but in my opinion, fixing spelling mistakes in comments and error message for a stable version shouldn't be done on such a large scale (if at all), because that may break tests and other code relying on these spelling mistakes. I think it would be worthwhile fixing this in master, so it would be more useful if you could test that branch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. 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