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Leslie Stephen in The Nineteenth Century, via Wikiquote. On 30/03/12 17:10, Trevor Parscal wrote: > No offense to those who have chimed in, but seriously, this is a silly > discussion. > > Do we really have the bandwidth to be 15 messages deep on this thread? > > - Trevor > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 29/03/12 00:10, Chad wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> There's been some comments that the phrasing for a -1 vote in >>> Gerrit ("I'd prefer that you didn't submit this") is kind of personal >>> and we can do better. >>> >>> I did some testing and this is totally configurable :) It won't change >>> for old comments that were already submitted, but we can pick >>> some nicer wording going forward. >>> >>> I really don't have any good suggestions for this, so I'm opening >>> this up to the list for a bit of good old fashioned bikeshedding. >> >> I don't really want Gerrit putting words into my mouth regardless of >> how nice they sound. There will always be cases where the phrase is >> inappropriate and offputting, regardless of which one you choose. >> >> How about "Set code review score to -1"? Then a more personal message >> can be typed by the human doing the review. >> >> -- Tim Starling >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
