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From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>,
	than.matos+bitbake@gmail.com,
	bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: YP docs mailing list <docs@lists.yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] Typo on the BitBake Documentation
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 10:09:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <06079ed7-7f81-c869-e141-b62d29497585@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dee6ed9a3beabd5cd18042c61b0dfd31c2c4ff8e.camel@linuxfoundation.org>

Hi Richard,

Am 03.01.23 um 23:24 schrieb Richard Purdie:
> On Tue, 2022-12-27 at 13:00 -0800, than.matos+bitbake@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm not sure if this is the right place to report and if I'm writing
>> in the wrong place, please feel free to remove this post.
>>   
>> I'm also not a native of English, but I think there is a typo on the
>> BitBake documentation page.
>>   
>>> You can obtain BitBake several different ways:
>> I feel like there is a missing `in` before the word `several`.
>>   
>> Sorry to bother you!
> Thanks for reporting it.
>
> I'm a little torn on this. I am a native speaker and I'd have said it
> was probably sounds better as it is now. Adding "in" could likely be
> argued to me more grammatically correct and more formal for a written
> document but it doesn't feel quite right to me. I suspect it is one of
> those cases where there isn't a 100% correct answer.


Thanks for the native advice!

What about "There are several ways to obtain BitBake"?

Cheers
Michael.

-- 
Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com



      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-04  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bWm9.1672174859052782246.2l5k@lists.openembedded.org>
2023-01-03 15:03 ` [bitbake-devel] Typo on the BitBake Documentation Quentin Schulz
2023-01-03 17:04   ` [docs] " Peter Kjellerstedt
     [not found] ` <dee6ed9a3beabd5cd18042c61b0dfd31c2c4ff8e.camel@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-01-04  9:09   ` Michael Opdenacker [this message]

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