On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 03:18:49PM +0000, Mattia Verga via devel wrote: > I have started to move away Bodhi from using the term "karma" to rate > updates. I know this word has become familiar to all Fedora users, but > there were several requests in the past to stop the misuse. As I may not > be the most "politically correct" person you know, this task has been > low priority for me; nevertheless, I've now found some spare time to > start working on it. > > So, I plan to replace the term "karma" with "feedback" where users > submit their (+1|0|-1) vote: a Comment will no more have the "karma" > property, but it will be "feedback". At the same time, TestCaseKarma and > BugKarma will become TestCaseFeedback and BugFeedback. > > For updates, the term "karma" is used as the sum of all karma|feedback > submitted by users, so I plan to rename this to "rating". English is not > my native language, but I think it is correct to rate an update > positive|neutral|negative and rating should be quite understandable to > foreign speakers.
Is this decision final? "karma" is a distinct term that is not easily confused. But if you tell me that an update had a negative "rating", people in Fedora will not know what you're talking about. The word is much more generic. Why did people complain about "karma"? Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
