Re: English review of the templates of MiniUPnPd 1.7-4
Hi Justin,
as always, I wish I could write as well as you do.
These changes will be applied!
Thomas (from my phone)
On Wed Aug 29 2012 05:57:51 PM CST, Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk> wrote:
> Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > Template: miniupnpd/start_daemon
> > Type: boolean
> > Default: false
> > _Description: Start the MiniUPnP daemon?
>
> Right now or regularly?
> _Description: Start the MiniUPnP daemon at boot?
>
> > Select if the MiniUPnP daemon should started automatically at boot
> > time.
> ^^
> Active or passive?
>
> Please choose whether the MiniUPnP daemon should start automatically
> at boot time.
>
> > Template: miniupnpd/listen
> > Type: string
> > _Description: IP address to listen for UPnP queries on your LAN:
>
> If it's listening on an IP address on my LAN, that's (the horrible)
> "IP address to listen for UPnP queries *on* on your LAN". We could
> say it's listening "at" that address, but it's not much better. How
> about:
>
> _Description: LAN IP address to listen for UPnP queries on:
>
> > The MiniUPnP daemon will listen for requests on your local network.
> > Please enter the IP address it should listen on.
>
> Is there any particular reason why this and the next template give
> different explanations of what MiniUPNPd does? We could make it:
>
> The MiniUPnP daemon listens for connections on its LAN IP address,
> then maps them to ports on its WAN interface.
> .
> Please specify the local IP address it should listen on.
>
> Less work for the translators, as long as I'm getting that description
> right.
>
> > Template: miniupnpd/iface
> > Type: string
> > _Description: External WAN network interface where to open ports:
>
> I suppose there are prescriptive grammarians who'd claim you have to
> say s/where/on which/, but the normal English is
>
> _Description: External WAN network interface to open ports on:
>
> > The MiniUPnP daemon will listen on a specific IP address on your LAN,
> > then it will open ports on your WAN interface. Enter the name of your
> > WAN network interface on which the MiniUPnP daemon will do the port
> > forwarding.
>
> The MiniUPnP daemon listens for connections on its LAN IP address,
> then maps them to ports on its WAN interface.
> .
> Please specify the name of the external network interface it should
> set up port forwarding on.
>
> (In the process I seem more or less accidentally to have eliminated the
> word "your".)
> --
> JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
> sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
<Attachment> patch.jbr
<Attachment> miniupnpd.templates
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