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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:56:42 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, chinsan <chinsan.tw@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, vanilla@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/99888: [PATCH] en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction: Fix typo
Message-ID:  <200607071356.42761.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060707173156.480C32E970@smtp2.bc.hgc.com.tw>

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On Friday 07 July 2006 13:20, chinsan wrote:
> 
> >Number:         99888
> >Category:       docs
> >Synopsis:       [PATCH] en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction: Fix 
typo
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       non-critical
> >Priority:       low
> >Responsible:    freebsd-doc
> >State:          open
> >Quarter:        
> >Keywords:       
> >Date-Required:
> >Class:          update
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 07 17:40:10 GMT 2006
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     chinsan
> >Release:        FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE i386
> >Organization:
> FreeBSD Taiwan
> >Environment:
> System: FreeBSD BSD6.giga.hgc.com.tw 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #4: Fri 
Jun 9 14:02:41 CST 2006 
root@BSD6.giga.hgc.com.tw:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> >Description:
> - Fix typo
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> >Fix:
> 
> --- introduction.diff begins here ---
> --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml~	Sat Jul  8 
01:16:53 2006
> +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml	Sat Jul  8 
01:16:53 2006
> @@ -821,7 +821,7 @@
>  	      something back to FreeBSD today?</para>
>  
>  	    <para>Providing code is not the only way of contributing to
> -	      the project; for a more complete list of things that need
> +	      the project. For a more complete list of things that need
>  	      doing, please refer to the <ulink
>  	      url="&url.base;/index.html">FreeBSD Project web
>  	      site</ulink>.</para>
> --- introduction.diff ends here ---

This actually isn't a typo as it's valid English grammar to join two 
independent clauses with a semi-colon.

-- 
John Baldwin


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