From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B562C433FE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2022 15:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234699AbiADPKA (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2022 10:10:00 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:35744 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232106AbiADPJ7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2022 10:09:59 -0500 Received: from desiato.infradead.org (desiato.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1:d65d:64ff:fe57:4e05]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B1669C061761; Tue, 4 Jan 2022 07:09:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=desiato.20200630; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type :In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID: Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=v8liNB6aaaW1HxNxPzihRK7DuVOe86LHkJauyhdHUc8=; b=UucLCR0GHwXEmQR6ZeE6QV4MGi CFEUG8HK9pEcb3/ZxekgTMgWOg2XTx7pU1Yy2XqTfPbUetD0toPlrPxLKko87rfBtRVFjSYFKbwRO krvIJH2777xMAqpdrE8KlmKF038w7ycvBZb4rzxC8kBBFZ4P0NCT6lF9j8WvlQWYEtVW3z2fqs4ek K3iW2e/2BC1byFC/vs46wEqn9B+hNwzVJCsahozkp/DtrljYsXI0kIC7OLvJVPGA1HuK+dKBDinJp /Op+3Qrzt3qClkeWNH1YT3Y1CvtgPD8MPyre4CO3poEZB3glb2lyIsT0EWRLoPmnBWd24F5nrSazw WHOJjtKA==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::aa0b] by desiato.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1n4lRe-005I6V-Fw; Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:09:50 +0000 Message-ID: <43cb0393-c161-f853-144d-f28c6557154f@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 07:09:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.4.1 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/2] docs: regressions.rst: rules of thumb for handling regressions Content-Language: en-US To: Jonathan Corbet , Thorsten Leemhuis , Lukas Bulwahn Cc: "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , workflows@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <9a68f2fcb5fe599b76e278a61928e23eb950cd83.1641203216.git.linux@leemhuis.info> <87sfu3woj1.fsf@meer.lwn.net> From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <87sfu3woj1.fsf@meer.lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/4/22 06:42, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis writes: > >> On 04.01.22 13:16, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 3:23 PM Thorsten Leemhuis 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. -- ~Randy