Um, I wasn't being arrogant, nor did I disparage your suggestion. I
simply said it sounded fine to me, noted that I was a native speaker in
case that wasn't clear - since many of the people involved in the Ubuntu
project are not - and asked for a reference in case this was one of the
areas of grammar with which I was unfamiliar. (I don't regard the word
"quibble" as disparaging, if that's what upset you; quibbling is an
integral part of improving polish and general quality.) As a maintainer,
an important part of maintaining quality is to ensure that I understand
every change that's being made, rather than blindly accepting changes I
don't understand. Furthermore, grammar sometimes varies between British
and American English, and I had no idea which of those you spoke.
There's no need to be sensitive about it.
I've changed the text to something similar to your second suggestion:
"You need to specify a partition for the root file system (mount point
"/") with a minimum size of 2 GB, and a swap partition of at least 256
MB. You may also set up other partitions if you wish." I've also changed
a few other strings that used "Make sure to".
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson
Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Committed
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Feisty Herd 4, grammar error in dialog text
https://launchpad.net/bugs/86284
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