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