Re: [RFR] Please check the DebConf12 final report

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Justin B Rye wrote:

> Or to quote the whole sentence,
> # Having dedicated equipment for the DebConf video team has reduced
> # the setup time and contributed to increas{e,ing} the quality of the
> # recordings.
[...]
>> victory wrote:

>>> is this right?
[...]
>             the "to" here isn't the one that marks infinitives; it's
> part of the "phrasal verb" "contribute to".  You could rephrase the
> sentence as follows:
[...]
> | Having dedicated equipment for the DebConf video team has had two
> | benefits:
> | 1) it has reduced something (that is, setup time);
> | 2) it has contributed to something (that is, the process of
> |	increasing the quality of the recordings).

It would be more idiomatic to just say "and has improved the quality
of the recordings."