Re: Should the resolved issues section in Release Notes be in the past tense or the present?

[punit shrivastava <punitshrivastava -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Hi Praneeta,
So far, I have seen present perfect usage only, wherein we provide detail
about the issue and then write, "The issue has been resolved."

Thanks
Punit

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Praneeta Paradkar <
praneeta_paradkar -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is a long raging debate in my team about the tense used for resolved
> issues in the Release Notes document.
>
> I have seen various release notes documents, and my observations are as
> follows:
>
> 1. Present tense is used.
> 2. Past tense is used.
> 3. Present tense is used and the issue is stated in "resolution" form. For
> example, running the ABC script no longer gives the XYZ error.
>
> What is the best way to move forward?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Praneeta
>
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