I’m upset about it because it lacks attention to detail. Language is tricky, but this is an attempt to use an expression without understanding what it is. The obvious choice would’ve been to not use it and state the numbers plainly.
Perhaps the numbers are not plainly available as the previous commenter stated, and they wanted to call out the direct contribution of the 78 unique commit authors, without disregarding many other indirect contributions from commenters, reviewers, testers etc.
It’s perhaps better that patch notes are written by programmers and not linguists. Incorrectly using a (harmless) phrase is perfectly okay. It doesn’t detract from the important bits of the announcement at all.
edit: damn, that’s a big reaction for an accidental mistake someone wrote in a patch notes highlight article.
The latest feature release Git v2.42.0is now available at the
usual places. It is comprised of 453 non-merge commits since
v2.41.0, contributed by78 people, 17 of which are new faces
78 people contributed in the form of code commits, but more people likely contributed to the release in other ways (QA, triage, release management etc.)
Fuck me. Can you not read? It is stating specifically features and bug fixes. QA, triage, release management are neither features nor bug fixes. They’re processes. They’re necessary. But that’s a separate thing.
The author of the blogpost is a developer, not a professional writer. Honestly I don’t understand why you’re so upset about it.
I’m upset about it because it lacks attention to detail. Language is tricky, but this is an attempt to use an expression without understanding what it is. The obvious choice would’ve been to not use it and state the numbers plainly.
Perhaps the numbers are not plainly available as the previous commenter stated, and they wanted to call out the direct contribution of the 78 unique commit authors, without disregarding many other indirect contributions from commenters, reviewers, testers etc.
It’s perhaps better that patch notes are written by programmers and not linguists. Incorrectly using a (harmless) phrase is perfectly okay. It doesn’t detract from the important bits of the announcement at all.
edit: damn, that’s a big reaction for an accidental mistake someone wrote in a patch notes highlight article.
How would you write it?
There. Simple.
But there were more contributors, you just don’t know how many. By this you’re kind of disregarding their work.
No there aren’t, stop making things up. From the official release notes:
The latest feature release Git v2.42.0 is now available at the usual places. It is comprised of 453 non-merge commits since v2.41.0, contributed by 78 people, 17 of which are new faces78 people contributed in the form of code commits, but more people likely contributed to the release in other ways (QA, triage, release management etc.)
Fuck me. Can you not read? It is stating specifically
features and bug fixes. QA, triage, release management are neither features nor bug fixes. They’re processes. They’re necessary. But that’s a separate thing.QA of course contributes to the defects and features.