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Re: RFC round 3: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines



On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, brian m. carlson wrote:
> If you had said "Free-form comments can follow", then that would be
> correct.

Actually, that's what's in the document...

> As a native speaker of en_US, I would say that "Free-form
> comments follow and may be used..." sounds best.  "May" is better than
> "can" here because there is no doubt about your ability: you *can* write
> anything you want, but whether it is permitted or not is another matter.

So "Free-form comments may follow and be used..." ?

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog


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