Dale Huckeby a écrit :
On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
the english language is pretty rich; and i suspect there are quite a
few words
that could convey the correct meaning without the word being too
difficult.
otoh, there is also the fact that "free" or "core" don't really convey
the
correct meaning at all either and could be quite dubious.
patented would be more correct, but i don't wanna call it that,
because then
mageia would be sued by patent-lawyers all over the world. don't get
me wrong,
it wouldn't be illegal, but it would just be too timeconsuming...
imho, we should have a simple not too difficult word that somehow
shows a bit
about the nature of the contents in it, while still being vague enough.
Okay, short words: iffy, chancy, dicey, knotty, clouded, foggy, hazy,
unclear, contro (for controversial),
prob (for problematic), equiv (for equivocal), irreg (for irregular). I
like iffy best. It's short, it's
informal, its meaning is clear, yet it's not too narrow.
Dale Huckeby
great idea, abreviations !
contro, irreg, and equiv are abreviations for words that don't question
the quality.
I like contro and irreg best.
We can always give the full word in our documentation which explains the
purpose of each repository.
That would work.
(BTW, when I think about it, iffy could be considered to refer to
quality - but it's still way better than tainted.)
Of course, there should be lots of other abreviations to choose from, if
collectively we don't like one of these.
- André
