[virt-tools-list] [PATCH] migrate: use correct grammar

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Apr 4 00:46:16 UTC 2013


On 04/01/2013 03:46 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/a-while-awhile.aspx,
> you can tell whether to use 'awhile' or 'a while' by substituting
> 'quietly' or 'a year' and seeing if the resulting sentence still makes
> sense.  During migration, we used an adverb, but want the noun form.
> 
> * src/virtManager/migrate.py (vmmMigrateDialog.finish): Use
> correct grammar.
> ---
> 
>  src/virtManager/migrate.py | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/virtManager/migrate.py b/src/virtManager/migrate.py
> index 1a488e5..6083846 100644
> --- a/src/virtManager/migrate.py
> +++ b/src/virtManager/migrate.py
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  #
> -# Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc.
> +# Copyright (C) 2009, 2013 Red Hat, Inc.
>  # Copyright (C) 2009 Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>
>  #
>  # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> @@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ class vmmMigrateDialog(vmmGObjectUI):
>                                 max_downtime],
>                                _("Migrating VM '%s'" % self.vm.get_name()),
>                                (_("Migrating VM '%s' from %s to %s. "
> -                                 "This may take awhile.") %
> +                                 "This may take a while.") %
>                                  (self.vm.get_name(), srchost, dsthost)),
>                                self.topwin,
>                                cancel_back=_cancel_back,
> 

Thanks Eric, pushed now.

- Cole




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