Tails

#2 Updated by sajolida 2019-11-25 17:29:17

You’ll see that I left a TODO for a “Video of the test suite running”. I thought that this might be easy to get out of the test suite and would add another funny visual to the story. But if it’s not easy forget it :)

#5 Updated by moire 2019-12-11 18:23:42

In https://salsa.debian.org/moire-guest/tails.git
branch: moire/web/10years-fixes

you’ll find a couple of (hopefully) fixes.

#6 Updated by sajolida 2019-12-12 09:20:39

Merged, thanks!

I reverted your fix to ‘everybody’. I’ve seen you repeatedly change my
‘everybodies’ while I think that they are perfectly correct and sound
better to me.

See https://www.thefreedictionary.com/everybody

« Writing for children rather than about them is very difficult as
everybody who has tried it knows. »

#8 Updated by moire 2019-12-12 16:24:50

> I reverted your fix to ‘everybody’. I’ve seen you repeatedly change my
> ‘everybodies’ while I think that they are perfectly correct and sound
> better to me.

The reason for the replacement was to avoid having “everybody” in two
contiguous list items, in addition to the introduction sentence of the
list and the first list item.

If it’s not on purpose, replacing at least one of them is an improvement.

“[E]ffective writing makes use of repetition to reinforce important
ideas. In our grammar handbook, we advise that although “repetition and
elaboration are fine tools for drawing the reader’s attention to a
certain point, you don’t want to go overboard or do it unintentionally.”
Writers often unintentionally repeat words or phrases; the best way to
correct this is to read your work out loud."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/6-fixes-for-repetitive-wr_b_4963477

#9 Updated by sajolida 2019-12-14 15:04:16

@moire: Ooook, thanks! I didn’t see that :)

Fixed again in 1fc4a79649.