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

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 19 22:04:21 UTC 2013


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.

Glen

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