On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 at 10:06 Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017, at 04:58 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2017, at 11:33 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > >I'd favour "Participate" over any variant of "Contribute", as without > > >context, "Contribute" makes me think of financial support in the > > >crowdfunding/tip jar sense. > > > > "Participate" may mean two different things. > > > > * Here's the development home, with a repo and issue tracker, > > contributions > > welcome! > > > > * Here's the mailing list or other forum where we discuss the future of > > Guido's Magical Mystery Time Machine. > > Perhaps this points to labelling URLs with nouns rather than verbs: > things like 'mailing list', 'source code' or 'issue tracker' seem less > ambiguous than 'participate' or 'contribute'. > I agree with Thomas on this one. Seeing a link that says "Participate" just feels like it's missing an exclamation point and subtext saying I could earn $2,000/week from it. ;) Since this has turned into bikeshedding over names when we have a general metadata solution, I've filed https://github.com/takluyver/flit/issues/116 and consider my question answered. :)
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