svn commit: r40980 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing

Eitan Adler eadler at freebsd.org
Tue Feb 19 22:06:55 UTC 2013


On 19 February 2013 17:04, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:56:27PM +0100, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
>> Hi Eitan,
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 03:43:09PM +0000, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> > Author: eadler
>> > Date: Sat Feb 16 15:43:08 2013
>> > New Revision: 40980
>> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40980
>> >
>> > Log:
>> >   Twiddle with the poorly worded sentence.
>>
>> I am not a native English speaker, so correct me if I'm wrong.  The
>> commit log sounds slightly derogatory toward the original author.  Given
>> we have many committers who are not native speakers, maybe we should
>> avoid such comments so may dishearten them.
>>
>> Again, excuse me if I am misunderstanding your statement.
>>
>
> I agree, unintentional or otherwise, the log for this commit was a bit
> much, and certainly can be misinterpreted negatively.

I did not intend to offend anyone and if I did, I apologize.

Perhaps any of the following?

"Twiddle with a poorly worded sentence."
"Make this sentence more clear"
or
"Avoid references to the first person and clarify sentence."


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Eitan Adler
Source, Ports, Doc committer
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