Re: clearer bugzilla stock responses. shorter ways.

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:

> On 10/10/06, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> > hejho folks,
> >
> > tonight i again have to realize that not being
> sober also means that one
> > should spend some time to make the world a better
> place, e.g. by making
> > it easier for the user to understand the "get us a
> cute stacktrace,
> > darling!" bugzilla stock response.
> > so pass it over, and read what what was written
> down:
> 
> Sweet, thanks for working on this.  They sound like
> good changes to me...
> > i'd also change the "obsolete" response from
> > "However, the version you are using is no longer
> maintained." to
> > something like
> > "However, the version you are using is no longer
> maintained, so there
> > will not be any bug fixes for the version that you
> use."
> > 'maintained' sounds abstract, let's tell the user
> about the results.
> 
> Given that you were trying to make the wording
> softer/nicer on some of
> the other responses, this sounds a bit more harsh. 
> I'm fine with it,
> but just thought I'd point it out in case you wanted
> to refine it.
> 

Yes, I thought that too.
How about something like:
'However, you are using an old version, which Gnome
developers are no longer working on.'


		
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