This diff updates our doc so that we are explicit about certain steps being required rather than optional, as was previously implied by using "you can."
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- rCOMMb3b267eab769: [docs] Remove 'you can' instance from non-optional steps
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I think the intent was to avoid an imperative or ordering tone. Probably want something like Please run the following: instead of Run this command:
Then again, I'm terrible at diction.
I think the intent was to avoid an imperative or ordering tone.
I believe the intent here was to remove "you can" because it could give the impression that a step is optional.
(@adar might be helpful to include a Linear link or something in the future to provide that context)
My $0.02 is that we might not need to include "run this command" at all in the docs; I'd imagine most of our target audience would get that text in a markdown code block implies for the user to execute a given command.
NBD, just from what I've seen in some other docs before, I do understand how being explicit removes any possible ambiguity.
I believe the intent here was to remove "you can" because it could give the impression that a step is optional.
Then to @adar credit, the steps are not optional.
My $0.02 is that we might not need to include "run this command" at all in the docs; I'd imagine most of our target audience would get that text in a markdown code block implies for the user to execute a given command.
NBD, just from what I've seen in some other docs before, I do understand how being explicit removes any possible ambiguity.
Yeah personally agree, but defer to the docs folks since they have pretty specific language preferences