Re: September Month of the Hurd

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 01:08:07AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 01:37:07PM +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 03:03:19PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> > > | Manuel Menal [fixed a
> > > | bug](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00061.html) 
> > > that
> > > | occurred when sending file descriptors with `SCM_RIGHTS` over `PF_LOCAL`
> > > | sockets.  He also determined this bug to be the reason that the SSH 
> > > daemon's
> >                       ^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > I don't think that's the right word here. I guess "identfied" would do.
> > (Among many other possible options -- "discovered", "found", "detected",
> > "established"...)
> 
> All fine, but in my understanding of the English language, each one of
> the list of words that you gave is synonymous to (one meaning of) ``to
> determine'' (German: ``ermitteln'').

But you wouldn't use "ermitteln" here if you wrote it in German -- would
you? :-) I agree that it's similar in meaning to words like
"herausfinden" -- yet different enough to make it sound awkward... Or at
least it sounds awkward to me.

> If you want to, please change the text; it's a wiki.

OK, if you don't mind...

> > BTW, did you leave out the bit about 68% Debian packages on purpose?
> 
> I dropped it this time.  We reported 66 % in news/2010-04-30.  (I do
> know that these +2 % have been non-trivial.)

I see... One might argue that it's still good to show the progress; but
I wouldn't insist.

-antrik-