question

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 20 20:51:28 UTC 2006


On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:27:52 +0200
Daniel Gerzo <danger at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hello doc,
> 
>   I would like to make the
>   "../../../../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/policies.html"
>   found in fourth rule of
>   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/rules.html
>   to look like http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/.... Any objections?
> 
>   Also, I have a question regarding to this sentence (5th rule):
> 
>   "If the change turns out to be the best thing after all, it can be
>   easily brought back. If it turns out not to be, then the users did
>   not have to live with the bogus change in the tree while everyone
>   was busily debating its merits. People very very rarely call for
>                                          ^^--
>   back-outs in the repository since discussion generally exposes bad
>   or controversial changes before the commit even happens, but on such
>   rare occasions the back-out should be done without argument so that
>   we can get immediately on to the topic of figuring out whether it was
>   bogus or not."
> 
>   I'm not sure about the double "very" there. What do you think? If
>   this is intentional, shouldn't be there at least comma between
>   them?

It is a grammatical error and should be fixed.

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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