[libdvdcss-devel] [PATCH] NEWS: misc spelling, grammar and wording fixes

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 3/12/13, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> ---
>  NEWS |   55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index fe6a424..e61c5ea 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -4,68 +4,67 @@ Changes between 1.2.13 and 1.3.0:
>    * Dropped deprecated, undocumented API:
>      - the function dvdcss_title()
>      - the type dvdcss_handle
> -  * Drop support for Windows 98 support and Windows NT 4.0
> -    Windows 98 SE with IE 5.0 and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 with IE 5.0 are
> required
> +  * Drop support for Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0.
> +    Windows 98 SE with IE 5.0 and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 with IE 5.0 are
> required.
>
>
>  Changes between 1.2.12 and 1.2.13:
>  ----------------------------------
>
> -  * Drop BSD/OS and Windows 95 support
> -  * Rewrite most of the build system and simplify it
> -  * System-dependant code cleanup
> -  * Move to Git and rewrite of the history to get proper authorship
> -  * Drop LaTeX documentation
> -  * Fix build on various systems
> -  * Fix compilation on MSVC
> +  * Drop BSD/OS and Windows 95 support.
> +  * Rewrite most of the build system and simplify it.
> +  * System-dependent code cleanup
> +  * Move to Git and rewrite the history to get proper authorship.
> +  * Drop LaTeX documentation.
> +  * Fix build on various systems including MSVC.
>
>
>  Changes between 1.2.11 and 1.2.12:
>  ----------------------------------
>
> -  * fix regression on RPC-I drives handling.
> +  * Fix regression with RPC-I drive handling.
>
>
>  Changes between 1.2.10 and 1.2.11:
>  ----------------------------------
>
> -  * improvements on RPC-II handling.
> -  * more robust key retrieval.
> -  * fixes for MinGW compilation.
> -  * fixes for OS/2 compilation.
> -  * various bug fixes for small issues, memleaks, crashes and build
> issues.
> +  * improvements with RPC-II handling
> +  * more robust key retrieval
> +  * fixes for MinGW compilation
> +  * fixes for OS/2 compilation
> +  * various bug fixes for small issues, memleaks, crashes and build
> problems
>
>
>  Changes between 1.2.9 and 1.2.10:
>  ---------------------------------
>
> -  * DVD drive autodetection.
> -  * new dvdcss_is_scrambled() function.
> -  * various failure recovery improvements.
> -  * accept "X:\" as a device name, as well as "X:".
> -  * various bug fixes.
> +  * DVD drive autodetection
> +  * new dvdcss_is_scrambled() function
> +  * various failure recovery improvements
> +  * accept "X:\", as well as "X:" as device name
> +  * various bug fixes
>
>  Changes between 1.2.8 and 1.2.9:
>  --------------------------------
>
>    * more robust key caching
>    * support for cache directory tags
> -  * improved seeking on win32
> +  * improved seeking on Win32
>    * support for Solaris libsmedia library
>
>  Changes between 1.2.7 and 1.2.8:
>  --------------------------------
>
> -  * win32 fix for encrypted DVDs.
> -  * workaround for strange discs that report read errors seemingly at
> random.
> +  * Win32 fix for encrypted DVDs
> +  * workaround for strange discs that report read errors seemingly at
> random
>
>  Changes between 1.2.6 and 1.2.7:
>  --------------------------------
>
> -  * activated key caching by default.
> -  * fix for collisions between cached keys.
> -  * packaging improvements for Debian.
> -  * packaging improvements for RPM-based distributions.
> +  * key caching activated by default
> +  * fix for collisions between cached keys
> +  * packaging improvements for Debian
> +  * packaging improvements for RPM-based distributions
>
>  Changes between 1.2.5 and 1.2.6:
>  --------------------------------
> @@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ Changes between 1.2.4 and 1.2.5:
>  Changes between 1.2.3 and 1.2.4:
>  --------------------------------
>
> -  * administrator rights are no longer required under Windows NT/2000/XP
> +  * administrator privileges are no longer required under Windows
> NT/2000/XP
>
>  Changes between 1.2.2 and 1.2.3:
>  --------------------------------
> --
> 1.7.9.5

Hum... you put period "." at the end of all items before 1.2.12 to 13
, but you removed it on all items after it. Doesn't look consistent.

And you didn't capitalize the sentences from the old entries, only 1.2.11 to 12.