Re: [PATCH] manual: Fix the wording to "alternative" rather than "alternate"

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 1/23/19 3:39 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:37 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 1/17/19 1:34 AM, TAMUKI Shoichi wrote:
>>> ChangeLog:
>>>
>>>       * manual/time.texi (strftime): Fix the wording to "alternative" rather
>>>       than "alternate".
>>
>> The crystal clear difference between alterate and alternative is somewhat
>> lost in modern English.
>>
>> In the use below we see "alternate" as an adjective of the "representation"
>> and so can mean "taking the place of." Like "I am the alternate steward if
>> Joseph Myers is away."
>>
>> I think the original use of alternate is correct.
> 
> I wouldn't describe "alternate" as _wrong_ in this context, but POSIX
> uses "alternative" consistently in the strftime specification, so I
> think this change is desirable (and I already told Shoichi the patch
> was pre-approved).

That sounds like a perfectly good reason to accept the patch, and I see
it was committed the next day on 2019-01-19.

I am *always* happy to see people thinking about and looking at the
manual. I was worried that Shoichi had not gotten any feedback (and
I hadn't noticed the patch had gone in already).

I would suggest Reviewed-by: lines in posts to libc-alpha that have
real review by someone else. If I'd known you'd reviewed this I would
have just moved on to another patch.  I'm not grumpy, just trying to
be efficient. As it was today the patch looked unreviewed.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.