"The doctrine of toleration requires a positive as well as a negative statement. It is not only wrong to burn a man on account of his creed, but it is right to encourage the open avowal and defence of every opinion sincerely maintained. Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service."
Leslie Stephen in The Nineteenth Century, via Wikiquote.
On 30/03/12 17:10, Trevor Parscal wrote:
No offense to those who have chimed in, but seriously, this is a silly discussion.
Do we really have the bandwidth to be 15 messages deep on this thread?
- Trevor
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 29/03/12 00:10, Chad wrote:
Hi everyone,
There's been some comments that the phrasing for a -1 vote in Gerrit ("I'd prefer that you didn't submit this") is kind of personal and we can do better.
I did some testing and this is totally configurable :) It won't change for old comments that were already submitted, but we can pick some nicer wording going forward.
I really don't have any good suggestions for this, so I'm opening this up to the list for a bit of good old fashioned bikeshedding.
I don't really want Gerrit putting words into my mouth regardless of how nice they sound. There will always be cases where the phrase is inappropriate and offputting, regardless of which one you choose.
How about "Set code review score to -1"? Then a more personal message can be typed by the human doing the review.
-- Tim Starling
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