Re: [bitbake-devel] Typo on the BitBake Documentation

Re: [bitbake-devel] Typo on the BitBake Documentation

[Quentin Schulz]

Hi,

On 12/27/22 22:00, 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.
> 

This is actually quite a good guess, just adding the yocto-docs ML to Cc 
recipients to notify people generally interested in docs.

> 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`.
> 

Both feel odd to me, your suggestion more than the current phrasing 
though. I'm not a native speaker either you'd have guessed :)

> Sorry to bother you!
> 

Thanks for taking the time to report this, I'll let native speakers 
chime in and decide for us :)

Cheers,
Quentin

RE: [docs] [bitbake-devel] Typo on the BitBake Documentation

[Peter Kjellerstedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org <docs@lists.yoctoproject.org> On Behalf
> Of Quentin Schulz via lists.yoctoproject.org
> Sent: den 3 januari 2023 16:03
> To: than.matos+bitbake@gmail.com; bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
> Cc: YP docs mailing list <docs@lists.yoctoproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [docs] [bitbake-devel] Typo on the BitBake Documentation
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 12/27/22 22:00, 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.
> 
> This is actually quite a good guess, just adding the yocto-docs ML to Cc
> recipients to notify people generally interested in docs.
> 
> > 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`.
> 
> Both feel odd to me, your suggestion more than the current phrasing
> though. I'm not a native speaker either you'd have guessed :)
> 
> > Sorry to bother you!
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to report this, I'll let native speakers
> chime in and decide for us :)

Well, I am not a native English speaker either, but I agree with Than 
that "in several" would improve the sentence. Alternatively, it can be 
rewritten as:

  There are several different ways that BitBake can be obtained:

> 
> Cheers,
> Quentin

//Peter

Re: [bitbake-devel] Typo on the BitBake Documentation

[Michael Opdenacker]

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
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