Le 17/01/2011 07:32, Philip Hands a écrit : > Hi, Hi,
Thanks for your answer, kept verbatim for the bug log, and for debian-l10n-english interest too. > In the sentence: > > The mailing lists have been created to promote the use and development of > Debian. > > the "have been created" seems a little clumsy to me and should probably > be replaced with "were created", although I'd actually instead use > "exist" because that emphasises that the purpose continues rather than > being only an initial intention. I'm not sure if that would be clear to > a non-native reader though: > > The mailing lists exist to promote the use and development of Debian. > > I'm a little suspicious of the "the use and development of" bit as well, > since it seems that promote's subject is a little complicated. How > about: > > The mailing lists exist to promote Debian's development and use. > > or alternatively: > > The mailing lists exist to encourage both the use and the development > of Debian. > > these should be looked at by some non-natives English readers to see > which they find clearest. > > Cheers, Phil. Your proposals seems fine in my non-native PoV, but I believe that the initial wording and the following ones miss the goal of the bug title (at least for the third requirement: “helpful”). Could someone please help us and propose a simple wording to promote “on-topic, constructive and helpful” requirements for mailing lists usage? Regards David
Index: english/MailingLists/index.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/webwml/webwml/english/MailingLists/index.wml,v retrieving revision 1.42 diff -u -r1.42 index.wml --- english/MailingLists/index.wml 16 Jan 2011 20:38:02 -0000 1.42 +++ english/MailingLists/index.wml 17 Jan 2011 00:30:07 -0000 @@ -156,9 +156,10 @@ <p>When using the Debian mailing lists, please follow these rules:</p> <ul> - <li>The mailing lists are intended for constructive, on topic discussions - intended at making Debian better. Please attempt to make sure all of your - postings maintain all three criteria.</li> + <li>The mailing lists have been created to + promote the use and development of Debian. + Non-constructive or off-topic messages, + along with other abuses are not welcome.</li> <li>Do not send <em><a href="http://foldoc.org/spam";> spam</a></em>; see the <a href="#ads">advertising policy</a> below.</li> <li>Send all of your e-mails in English. Only use other languages on
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