Re: [PATCH] Documentation: management-style: Correct "know" past participle

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue Aug 26 2025 - 00:47:46 EST


Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Management style docs writes on people under a manager, where they know
> the details better than the manager himself, in past perfect tense. Yet,
> "know" is in infinitive form instead.
>
> Correct the verb form.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/process/management-style.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/management-style.rst b/Documentation/process/management-style.rst
> index dfbc69bf49d435..1381b253b19ef4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/management-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/management-style.rst
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ actually true.
> The name of the game is to **avoid** having to make a decision. In
> particular, if somebody tells you "choose (a) or (b), we really need you
> to decide on this", you're in trouble as a manager. The people you
> -manage had better know the details better than you, so if they come to
> +manage had better known the details than you, so if they come to
> you for a technical decision, you're screwed. You're clearly not

This seems actively wrong ... ?

jon