From: "Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>,
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 22:31:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebf96a35dd0205f17136e1c60860224889006890.camel@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210729130521.e5dkww5yktdf3uno@fedora>
On Thu, 2021-07-29 at 15:05 +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> 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?
I'd have said "Metadata is stored in recipes"...
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-29 21:31 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 ` [bitbake-devel] " Quentin Schulz
2021-07-29 13:09 ` [docs] " Michael Opdenacker
2021-07-29 21:31 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2021-07-30 10:29 ` [PATCH v4] " Michael Opdenacker
2021-07-30 10:33 ` [docs] [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] " Michael Opdenacker
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