On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:25 AM, William Tanksley, Jr <wtanksle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Then why on earth did you say you hadn't heard anything negative? > Sounds like the reaction was overwhelmingly negative.
Ah. I was either unclear or didn't fully think the sentence through: I was specifically referring to negative reactions from fellow developers. Apart from one or two comments to the extent of "a lot of people dislike this change, maybe we should revert it?", either the other developers were happy with the change, or didn't find it particularly important enough to argue the point with me about it; thus, I found it difficult to understand the meaning of the original commit message's "dissatisfaction" comment. > Any pointers to a decent discussion? Or for that matter, your > rationale? I hold you in high respect, so I expect to be convinced -- > but I know what I thought from the very first moment I saw this, and I > warn you that my reaction is going to be the same as almost everyone My rational point was that the change (to just "bats") is a good one. It's probably the change I should have made initially. My irrational point is that I defended "megabats" for a very long time. The storm of negativity seemed to pass and then fade into the background. Then, out of the blue, "megabat" is changed to "bat" with the implication that the majority of the dev team are unhappy with the name. Regardless of my rational and irrational points, humour is good for the game. It helps us to take ourselves less seriously. I don't feel that strongly about the change now as I did a few months ago, though that does not mean I'm not bemused -- see my "irrational point" -- by this one. > else's; they're going to assume you're making a computer geek pun. I still don't see why this is an issue. -J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
