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Date:      Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:04:43 -0500
From:      Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com>
To:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: www/en/news/status spelling fix patch
Message-ID:  <p06000b08baa35a2bdcf8@[66.92.104.201]>
In-Reply-To: <20030323.192437.59665844.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
References:  <20030323.192437.59665844.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>

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At 7:24 PM +0900 2003/03/23, Hiroki Sato wrote:

>  I am not a native English speaker, so could someone review this?
>  I think I will commit in a couple of days if no objection.

Hiroaki,

	It looks mostly right to me, but I found a few problems.

>Index: report-august-2001.xml

>@@ -1316,7 +1318,7 @@
>        naturally resulted in a number of bugs being found. Development
>        work has mostly focused on fixing these problems and the project
>        is now set to release fourth patchset over the weekend, which
>-      should see the JDK in a reasonable useable state. One of the big
>+      should see the JDK in a reasonable usable state. One of the big

	I think it should actually be "reasonably".

>        challenges left is producing a working HotSpot JVM, which looks
>        like it will require some heavy hacking.</p>
>


>Index: report-dec-2001-jan-2002.xml

>        <p>Milestone 4 will be to allow threads from the same program to
>-      run on multiple CPUS but may require more input from the SMPNG
>+      run on multiple CPUS but may require more input from the SMPng

	If you're fixing capitalization, it should be CPUs.

>        project. I am at the moment (Feb 6) getting ready to commit a
>        first set of changes for milestone 3, that have no real effect
>        but serve to drastically reduce the complexity of the remaining

>@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@
>        <p>The FreeBSD in Bulgarian project aims to bring a more
>        comfortable working environment to Bulgarian users of the FreeBSD
>        OS. This includes, but is not limited to, font, keymap and locale
>-      support, translation of the FreeBSD documentation into Bulgarian,
>+      support, translation of the FreeBSD documentation into Bulgarians,

	This was correct -- the language is singular -- so the change is bad.

>        local user groups and various forms of on-line help channels and
>        discussion forums to help Bulgarians adopt and use FreeBSD.</p>


>Index: report-feb-2002-apr-2002.xml

>@@ -225,8 +227,8 @@
>          printf(1) utility was brought up to conformance with the 1992
>          edition of POSIX.2, with further development planned.</p>
>
>-      <p>On the header front, much progress has been made.  Specically,
>-        infrastructure to control visiblity of components of a header, based
>+      <p>On the header front, much progress has been made.  Specially,
>+        infrastructure to control visibility of components of a header, based

	I'm not sure what the change is, but it should be "Specifically,".

>          on the standard requested by an application, has been added to
>          &lt;sys/cdefs.h&gt;.  Some work has been completed on renovating the
>          way types are defined.  This has lead to the creation of

>@@ -397,7 +399,7 @@
>        <p>We now have a loadable mfsroot floppy. It contains just the
>  	diskeditor (which is really a disk partitioner) which has been
>  	enhanced and is probably in his final form. It's been geared

	in his final -> in its final

>-	towards making the newfs(1) and mount(1) step seperate dialogs, so
>+	towards making the newfs(1) and mount(1) step separate dialogs, so

	"step separate dialogs, so reduced its complexity." ->
	"steps separate dialogs, to reduce their complexity."

>  	it reduced its complexity. A basic fstab class has been
>  	implemented to manipulate /etc/fstab and mountpoint. This might
>  	find a use outside libh, by the way. Libh package format is still


>Index: report-july-2001.xml

>@@ -241,9 +244,9 @@
>        systems. The format will be similar to other conferences, with 2
>        days of technical sessions over the Saturday and Sunday.</p>
>
>-      <p>We'll be finalising the schedule towards the end of the month
>+      <p>We'll be finalizing the schedule towards the end of the month
>        and anybody who is interested in doing a talk should contact us
>-      asap. There are no restrictions on the use of talks, if it's been
>+      ASAP. There are no restrictions on the use of talks, if it's been

	talks, ->
	talks;

>        done before we may still be interested in having it presented to
>        an European audience, and we make no claims to the talks so
>        speakers are free to present the talks again at other

>@@ -689,7 +692,7 @@
>      <body>
>        <p>The goal of this project is the implementation of ATM
>        signalling and other ATM protocols by means of the netgraph(4)
>-      framework. This should provide an easily extendable architecture
>+      framework. This should provide an easily extendible architecture

	extendible isn't right -- extensible works, though.

>        for using ATM on FreeBSD. Currently the full UNI4.0 stack (except
>        for the LIJ capability) has been implemented, including ILMI and
>        a first version of the ATM Forum API for UNI. An implementation


>Index: report-july-2002-aug-2002.xml


	I didn't get to the 2001 or earlier changes.


						Regards,


						Chris Pepper
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