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Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style
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Richard Stallman |
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Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style |
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Sat, 15 Oct 2022 16:43:39 -0400 |
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The proposed manual text includes several sentences which use passive
voice and would be shorter in active voice. Occasionally the use of
passive voice is best approach, but usually not, so please try making
them active and see if that makes the text more readable.
Please don't refer to a maintainer, singular, as "them".
There are many other ways to write that sentence, and some
don't use a pronoun at all.
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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- Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: names, (continued)
- Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: names, Richard Stallman, 2022/10/15
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: names, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/16
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: names, Richard Stallman, 2022/10/18
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: names, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/19
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: names, Stefan Monnier, 2022/10/19
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: names, Richard Stallman, 2022/10/21
- package-contact-maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2022/10/15
- Re: package-contact-maintainer, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/16
- Re: package-contact-maintainer, Stefan Kangas, 2022/10/16
- Re: package-contact-maintainer, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/16
- Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/16
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style, Rudolf Adamkovič, 2022/10/16
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/16
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style, Rudolf Adamkovič, 2022/10/17
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/20
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style, Rudolf Adamkovič, 2022/10/21
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/21
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style, Richard Stallman, 2022/10/18
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style, Stefan Monnier, 2022/10/18
- Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/19