Hi all,

I would like to recommend a naming convention that clearly differentiates between existing and wanted behavior. This is something that has been confusing for me for a while - bugs and tasks are both in the indicative so I often have trouble deciding whether a ticket describes a situation that exists but should not or one that does not exist but should.

Random example from current sprint board: "Anon users can access public view from main menu" with the associated description being "When anonymous and I click collections I am taken to the public view." Does this mean that anonymous users should not be able to access the public view but somehow they can, or is this the description of a wanted feature? I can figure it out by digging up context, of course, but that takes time; ideally, this should be clear from just the task title (which I might be seeing in a list or on a workboard).

I think it would be clearer if the title of the task would always reflected the situation at the time of creating the task, and titles describing a wanted but not currently existing state were phrased as imperatives. So if anons can see the public view right now and that's a bug the title would say "anons can access public view"; if they cannot access it currently but that's a feature we want, the title would say "anons should be able to access public view" or "make anons able to access public view".

Thoughts?

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