Duncan wrote: > As one who was offended when one of my first bugs got INVALIDated... > I know the feeling, mate :)
> NOTABUG would have been better. It may suffer some of the same issues, > but is better, and at least here, wouldn't have the discouraging > connotations due to the minor variation in meaning. Invalid (to me) > implies a judgement of the work of the submitter, while NOTABUG (to me) > implies more a simple variance of opinion, recognizing the other > viewpoint as possibly valid (not invalid), but simply choosing a > different route, making a different choice. > Agreed. Let's face it, this is a question of how it makes users feel about getting involved with helping Gentoo. > After looking the word and a couple related words up in kdict and paying > special attention to the thesaurus, I came up with a couple other > suggestions as well: > > NULL or VOID. > Yuck! Personally I understand the computer word well, and if i were to get a NUL it would mean no signal (yes, i know it's a zero). Void has bad connotations too for some reason, like a dustbin, er. I'd stick with NOTABUG. After all, it's not like other projects haven't got anything to teach about user involvement.. what's wrong with standards? ;) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
