On 1/26/11 7:36 AM, Lukas Theussl wrote:
No problem if it's clear in the context. As I said, it's not a big issue
and I'm not going to tell anybody how to lead a conversation. That said,
I believe it shows good form and education if you use normal language in
a normal conversation. :)
Apologies if my addition to the veto thread was what touched this off.
:-) It was a combination of using a phone for email for the first time
(yes, I know, I must be some kind of Luddite), and being in the habit of
expressing agreement via "+1" which happens all over the place in the
open-source world, and not just for votes.
Again, apologies if I confused anyone.
-Lukas
Mark Struberg wrote:
-1 or: I do not agree ;)
seriously, a +1 and -1 just states agreement/disagreement. Imo a vote
is a vote is a vote only if the subject says [VOTE] or [DISCUSS] [1].
A +1 in all other threads are just the expression of a ack/nack which
makes it easier/quicker to read, because the +1 or -1 just visually
jumps out of the text. If people start expressing their gut feeling
with long sentences, then this might slow down the process/overview on
the mailing lists.
LieGrue,
strub
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/DocumentationPlan
--- On Wed, 1/26/11, Arnaud Héritier<arnaud.herit...@exoplatform.com>
wrote:
From: Arnaud Héritier<arnaud.herit...@exoplatform.com>
Subject: Re: '+1' vs 'I agree'
To: "Maven Developers List"<dev@maven.apache.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 12:03 PM
I agree :-)
Arnaud
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Lukas Theussl<ltheu...@apache.org>
wrote:
This may seem like a peanut issue compared to other
things we have to
discuss these days, but since so many things are
coming up, I thought I toss
it in and maybe it will get overlooked...
It bugs me that every time I see a +1 in a normal
conversation I find
myself crawling back up the mail thread to check if I
missed a vote call
somewhere. I suspect it is common usus in apache land
or maybe just an
established habit, but I think it's a bad habit and
potentially confusing as
it's often not clear what the +1 refers to.
Isn't it reasonable to expect that people use proper
language like a simple
'Yes' or 'I agree' if they just want to express their
support for a point or
statement, and to reserve numerical expressions for
formal vote threads?
thanks,
-Lukas
(*sigh*, glad I got that off my chest...)
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