[Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ...

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 15 of February 2013, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote:
> >  That should be made more obvious in the wording then. I normally use
> > -1/-2 as the reverse of +1/+2
>
> Well, there are not symetrical:

 Yes, I get that now. I didn't before, and that'll happen for more people, 
because it's non-intuitive.

> I guess the problem is the balance between 'clarity' and perceived
> 'abruptness'. The 'text' associated with the value has been tweaked in
> favor of the later... but Committers should really use the values and
> they 'abrupt' meaning to decide when to use them.

 Indeed, there's always the option of documenting why it's non-obvious 
somewhere where half of the people'll never find it, rather than simply 
making it easy.

> PPS: please do not shoot the messenger...

 I'm not shooting the messenger, I'm telling him that the way it is he'll 
sooner or later need to go on more errands.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak at suse.cz