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From: "Quentin Schulz" <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
To: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Cc: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org, docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] doc: bitbake-user-manual: grammar fix for the number of "metadata"
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:05:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210729130521.e5dkww5yktdf3uno@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210729130133.163787-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>

Hi Michael,

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 03:01:33PM +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> "metadata" is used both as singular and as plural.
> The first change fixes a case in which the verbs have a singular conjugation
> but articles that indicate a plural case.
> 
> The second change is for consistency with the first one inside
> the same paragraph.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
> ---
>  doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.rst
> index eb140665..64e7305d 100644
> --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.rst
> +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-intro.rst
> @@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ Linux software stacks using a task-oriented approach.
>  Conceptually, BitBake is similar to GNU Make in some regards but has
>  significant differences:
>  
> --  BitBake executes tasks according to provided metadata that builds up
> +-  BitBake executes tasks according to provided metadata that build up
>     the tasks. Metadata is stored in recipe (``.bb``) and related recipe

Then "Metadata are" here seems appropriate to me. What do you think?

Cheers,
Quentin

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-29 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-21 16:11 "metadata": plural or singular or both? Michael Opdenacker
2021-07-21 16:20 ` [docs] " Richard Purdie
2021-07-21 17:04   ` Michael Opdenacker
2021-07-22  6:40     ` Richard Purdie
2021-07-29 13:01       ` [PATCH] doc: bitbake-user-manual: grammar fix for the number of "metadata" Michael Opdenacker
2021-07-29 13:05         ` Quentin Schulz [this message]
2021-07-29 13:09           ` [docs] [bitbake-devel] " Michael Opdenacker
2021-07-29 21:31           ` Richard Purdie
2021-07-30 10:29             ` [PATCH v4] " Michael Opdenacker
2021-07-30 10:33             ` [docs] [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] " Michael Opdenacker

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