364919 - Watching-related text at bottom of "Email Preferences" page has typos

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Accounts, defect)

Description

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

User Watching
If you watch a user, it is as if you are standing in their shoes for the purposes of getting email. Email is sent or not according to your preferences for their relationship to the bug (e.g. Assignee).You are watching anyone on the following list: 

Patch coming up.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Since the usage of "their" as a singular was mentioned on IRC, I give the following taken from the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, (c) 2006:

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Usage note-- Long before the use of generic he was condemned as sexist, the pronouns they, their, and them were used in educated speech and in all but the most formal writing to refer to indefinite pronouns and to singular nouns of general personal reference, probably because such nouns are often not felt to be exclusively singular: If anyone calls, tell them I'll be back at six. Everyone began looking for their books at once. Such use is not a recent development, nor is it a mark of ignorance. Shakespeare, Swift, Shelley, Scott, and Dickens, as well as many other English and American writers, have used they and its forms to refer to singular antecedents. Already widespread in the language (though still rejected as ungrammatical by some), this use of they, their, and them is increasing in all but the most conservatively edited American English. This increased use is at least partly impelled by the desire to avoid the sexist implications of he as a pronoun of general reference.

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Attachment: patch - v1

Put the "You are watching" / "You are not watching" text in a separate paragraph. This fixes the space issue and looks better overall.

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Attachment: patch - v2

Combine timeless's wording with my original patch.

Comment 5

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 249864 [details] [diff] [review]
patch - v2

The guy who wrote this part of the template initially didn't care too much about the indentation. r=LpSolit

Comment 6

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Checking in template/en/default/account/prefs/email.html.tmpl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/default/account/prefs/email.html.tmpl,v  <--  email.html.tmpl
new revision: 1.28; previous revision: 1.27
done