Re: [PATCH 5/5] NEWS: Add entries for bugs: 22848, 22932, 22937, 22963.

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 03/16/2018 03:47 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> 15.03.2018 22:06 Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com> wrote:
>>
>> 15.03.2018 18:39 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/15/2018 05:23 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> +Major new features:
>>>> +
>>>> +* As a continuation of the previous work on bug 10871 (supporting
>>>> nominative
>>>> + and genitive month names) alternative month data have been added for the
>>>> + Catalan and Czech language. For the Catalan language the abbreviated
>>>> + alternative month name data has been also added. The Greek language
>>>> which
>>>> + had had alternative month names already has received the abbreviated
>>>> + alternative month names.
>>>
>>> Suggest:
>>>
>>> * Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the Catalan and
>>> Czech languages. The Catalan and Greek languages now support abbreviated
>>> alternative month names.
>>
>> Thank you Carlos for this review and thank you Joseph for the discussion.
>> Is "supported"/"support" the correct word? IIUC this sounds like a new
>> software feature while I'm only adding new data. Wouldn't "provided" be
>> better, or "added" or "included"? Also I think it would be better to use
>> the consequent wording "nominative/genitive" vs. "alternative".
>>
>> Just please confirm if "supported" is correct.
> 
> Having no answer for this question I am going to push to master exactly
> the version suggested by Carlos.  We are not in a crunch time so if anything
> needs rewording we will have time for this.  Unfortunately, I won't have
> time to push anything these days except now.

Supported is correct. I should have rewritten the whole paragraph for present
tense, but what we have is good enough to clearly and succinctly explain what
we have done.

Always think of the NEWS notice from the user perspective. The user doesn't
really care about the difference between "proivded" or "supported", they just
want to know that *today* they now have access to these new features.

Cheers,
Carlos.