From: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
workflows@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/2] docs: regressions.rst: rules of thumb for handling regressions
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 19:02:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <832e4888-f002-6930-ab91-a5d73e16dbd5@leemhuis.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43cb0393-c161-f853-144d-f28c6557154f@infradead.org>
On 04.01.22 16:09, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 1/4/22 06:42, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> writes:
>>
>>> On 04.01.22 13:16, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 3:23 PM Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> wrote:
>>>>> +Try to fix regressions quickly once the culprit got identified. Fixes for most
>>>>
>>>> s/got/gets/ --- at least, that is what the gmail grammar spelling suggests :)
>>>
>>> Hmm, LanguageTool didn't complain. Not totally sure, maybe both
>>> approaches are okay. But the variant suggested by the gmail checker
>>> might be the better one.
>>
>> So we're deeply into nit territory, but "gets" would be the correct
>> tense there. Even better, though, is to avoid using "to get" in this
>> way at all. I'm informed that "to get" is one of the hardest verbs for
>> non-native speakers, well, to get, so I try to avoid it in my own
>> writing. "once the culprit is identified" or "has been identified"
>> would both be good here.
>
> Agreed. Any uses of the verb get/got are best avoided.
Ahh, good to known, thx to both of you. I guess my English teachers
tried to put that into my head like 30 years ago, but I assume the lossy
compression algorithm in there threw it away...
Went through the document and removed all get/got, was not that hard
most of the time.
Ciao, Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-04 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-03 9:50 [RFC PATCH v1 0/2] docs: add a document dedicated to regressions Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-03 9:50 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] docs: add a document about regression handling Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-03 17:07 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-01-03 17:20 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-03 17:55 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-01-04 14:17 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2022-01-04 17:57 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-05 8:45 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2022-01-03 9:50 ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/2] docs: regressions.rst: rules of thumb for handling regressions Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-04 12:16 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2022-01-04 13:29 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-04 14:42 ` Jonathan Corbet
2022-01-04 15:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2022-01-04 18:02 ` Thorsten Leemhuis [this message]
2022-01-03 14:01 ` [RFC PATCH v1 0/2] docs: add a document dedicated to regressions Greg Kroah-Hartman
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