Re: <sigh> I want keywords to make sense to someone other than me :/



On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 17:09, Heath Harrelson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 14:48, Luis Villa wrote:
> > GNOMEVER2.3 is described as:
> > 
> >         Keyword that should be used for all bugs which are present in
> >         GNOME Version 2.3. At this point (the 2.1 development cycle)
> >         this should be used only for feature requests that cannot be
> >         added for 2.1/2.2 because of the feature freeze.
> 
> I think that this is confusing merely because it's counter-intuitive. 
> While GNOMEVER* usually means "present in version foo of GNOME," here
> we're using a GNOMEVER keyword to say "this bug will *still* be
> unimplemented in version foo, let's take a look at it then."  This is
> the same problem we had when we marked 2.0 feature requests that hadn't
> gotten implemented GNOMEVER2.1.
> 
> Doing this makes sense, but it's going to take people a little while to
> get used to it, since it doesn't fit the heuristic most people are using
> to set keywords.

Fair enough, and in fact pretty correct. Alternate suggestions? 

Luis



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