It’s perhaps better that patch notes are written by programmers and not linguists. Incorrectly using a (harmless) phrase is perfectly okay. It doesn’t detract from the important bits of the announcement at all.
Comment on Git 2.42
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 year agoI’m upset about it because it lacks attention to detail. Language is tricky, but this is an attempt to use an expression without understanding what it is. The obvious choice would’ve been to not use it and state the numbers plainly.
Marzepansion@programming.dev 1 year ago
severien@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The obvious choice would’ve been to not use it and state the numbers plainly.
How would you write it?
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
The open source Git project just released Git 2.42 with features and bug fixes from 78 contributors, 17 of them new.
There. Simple.
severien@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But there were more contributors, you just don’t know how many. By this you’re kind of disregard their work.
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
No there aren’t, stop making things up. From the official release notes:
The latest feature release Git v2.42.0 is now available at the usual places. It is comprised of 453 non-merge commits since v2.41.0, contributed by 78 people, 17 of which are new faces
Tamo@programming.dev 1 year ago
Perhaps the numbers are not plainly available as the previous commenter stated, and they wanted to call out the direct contribution of the 78 unique commit authors, without disregarding many other indirect contributions from commenters, reviewers, testers etc.