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Re: DPN 04/2012 frozen. Please review and translate



On Sb, 18 feb 12, 12:16:40, Francesca Ciceri wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we just finished the last bits of DPN for the latest issue of the Debian
> Project News to be released Monday. We would appreciate reviews and
> translations.

See atached:
* a patch already commited (typos and a small rewording)
* another patch that I'd rather have ack'd by others

See comments below for each change:

-The Debian project is proud to have been able to
+The Debian Project is proud to have been able to

AFAIK "Debian Project" is always capitalized.


 family licences (including the GPL, the Affero GPL and LGPL), showing a
 costant and significant increase from the previous releases.
-Sullivan based his analysis on symlinks to shared licence files and on
-regular expression matching.

Even if the DPN audience should be quite familiar with symlinks and 
regexp's, this should probably be removed. If anyone is interested in 
the methodology they will probably want to see the talk anyway.


 Holger ended his mail with a thank to IRILL who hosted the meeting and
-provide storage for the hardware when not in use.
+provides storage for the hardware when not in use.

I can't explain why, but this "sounds better" to me :)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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From 117e5a05d236d5640952b85762a9f34d87a7ff78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: amp-guest <amp-guest@3450a6f1-12ab-4406-9a6b-23dd955c1e6d>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:36:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix a few typos and small rewording

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/publicity@3200 3450a6f1-12ab-4406-9a6b-23dd955c1e6d
---
 dpn/en/current/index.wml |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dpn/en/current/index.wml b/dpn/en/current/index.wml
index 34cf335..d3e4bec 100644
--- a/dpn/en/current/index.wml
+++ b/dpn/en/current/index.wml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ For more information on Debian GNU/Hurd, you can visit the
 <p>
 Stefano Zacchiroli sent some
 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/02/msg00001.html";>bits
-from the DPL</a> where, as usual, are reported his monthly activities.
+from the DPL</a> where, as usual, his monthly activities are reported.
 During the last month, Stefano has mostly worked on patents and legal
 related issues, as helping David Prévot and other webmasters in their 
 effort to relicense the Debian website, writing (with the help of
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ FOSDEM 2012 talk titled <q>Is copyleft being framed?</q> said that
 93 percent of Debian <q>Squeeze</q>'s packages are licensed under the GPL
 family licences (including the GPL, the Affero GPL and LGPL), showing a
 costant and significant increase from the previous releases.
-Sullivan based is analysis on symlinks to shared licence files and on
+Sullivan based his analysis on symlinks to shared licence files and on
 regular expression matching.
 </p>
 
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ that they use Debian for the render farm nodes.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Debian as again been chosen as <q>Server Distribution of the Year</q> by the <a
+Debian has again been chosen as <q>Server Distribution of the Year</q> by the <a
 href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/2011-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-award-winners-928502/";>\
 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards</a> this year.
 Debian is also the
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ the help of <q>Studenten Net Twente (SNT)</q> and HP.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Christian Perrier noted that the Beatrice Torracca reported the Debian <a
+Christian Perrier noted that Beatrice Torracca reported the Debian <a
 href="http://bugs.debian.org/660000";>bug #660000</a>.
 Beatrice is a long-time Italian translator in Debian (and other
 Free Software project as Italian Linux Documentation Project and
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From 697b71afc7905d7f1d199a211b81b25196957fe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:39:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] further fixes, pending ack from others

---
 dpn/en/current/index.wml |    6 ++----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dpn/en/current/index.wml b/dpn/en/current/index.wml
index d3e4bec..17b5774 100644
--- a/dpn/en/current/index.wml
+++ b/dpn/en/current/index.wml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias
 <q>Lenny</q> the security support for the old distribution (5.0 alias
 <q>Lenny</q>) <a href="$(HOME)/News/2012/20120209">is 
 terminated</a>. 
-The Debian project is proud to have been able to
+The Debian Project is proud to have been able to
 support its old distribution for such a long time and even for one year
 after a new version has been released.
 </p>
@@ -86,8 +86,6 @@ FOSDEM 2012 talk titled <q>Is copyleft being framed?</q> said that
 93 percent of Debian <q>Squeeze</q>'s packages are licensed under the GPL
 family licences (including the GPL, the Affero GPL and LGPL), showing a
 costant and significant increase from the previous releases.
-Sullivan based his analysis on symlinks to shared licence files and on
-regular expression matching.
 </p>
 
 <toc-add-entry name="19billion">Monetary value of Debian <q>Wheezy</q></toc-add-entry>
@@ -131,7 +129,7 @@ configurations of software and hardware needed for streaming and
 recording various important events as, for instance, DebConf and FOSDEM.
 <br />
 Holger ended his mail with a thank to IRILL who hosted the meeting and
-provide storage for the hardware when not in use.
+provides storage for the hardware when not in use.
 </p>
 
 <p>
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