On 2010-08-11 15:28, Justin B Rye wrote:
Not exactly, http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews talks about "Day Month Year" (no comma).(Skipping some where I just agree...) Filipus Klutiero wrote:On 2010-08-10 12:22, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:Instructions can be found on http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews[...]The 2010 annual Debian Developer Conference, DebConf10, which was held at Columbia University in New York City, ended last Saturday on 7 August, 2010."7 August, 2010", with the comma, doesn't seem right. It looks like a mix of "Month Day, Year" and "Day Month Year".It's the style recommended by quite a few style guides, including the one linked from "http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews";. Its main competitor (especially in en_US) is "August 7, 2010"; versions with ordinal suffixes ("August the 7th") are generally deprecated.
It makes sense in this perspective, but the sentence still sounds wrong to me. According to http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu#AboutDebianEdu.2BAC8Skolelinux :DebianEdu, who adapt Debian for the special needs of schools and similar institutions,<a href="http://lists.debian.org/2fltynl2bfo.fsf@login2.uio.no";>released their first test version</a> based uopn Debian <q>Squeeze</q>.s/uopn/upon/ I believe "who adapt" should be "which adapts"."Their first test version" implies that we're seeing the project as a group of people rather than an institution, so "who adapt". A bit of an en_GBism.
Debian Edu *is a Debian project to make the best distribution for educational purposes.You can read more about it here.
Perhaps "Debian Edu team members".
[...]While Annual Debian Developers Conference 2010 has just ended, preparations for the 2011 conference have already begun.DebConf10 is *the* 2010 Annual Debian Developers Conference, but I don't think "Annual Debian Developers Conference 2010" is a proper noun.In fact the phrase "annual Debian Developers Conference" is getting overused by this point in the text. Couldn't it just say "the 2010 DebConf"?
[Seems much better]
I didn't say "misleadingly high", I said the high number is misleading. There are 2 numbers; the low number, 145, and the high number, 245.According to the<a href="http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php";>unofficial release-critical bug counter</a>, the upcoming release, Debian 6.0<q>Squeeze</q>, is currently affected by 245 release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 145 release-critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen.Assuming this is valid as of August 6 (based on http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/2010-31 ), the high number is misleading. If I see 245 affect squeeze, I would basically expect to find that number if I select "squeeze" in the RC bugs count. But I get 323. The reason is squeeze-only bugs are subtracted from the squeeze bugs, since they are fixed.Er, 245 is misleadingly high because really it's 323?