So - does anyone else care about ticket titles or it is a complete >> bikeshedding and I should just go mind silently my own tickets? >> > > Changing a title (that was likely put there deliberately) without > consulting the original author is certainly unlikely to lead to desirable > behaviour adjustment (writing informative titles). For the most part, silly > (non-offensive) titles will fail to attract serious reviewers, so I expect > the issue to be largely self policing anyway (people will learn that > informative titles work better). > > This is a pretty good analysis, Nils.
A possible danger is that a sillily titled ticket with sub-par code > attracts a sub-par (positive) review--flying under the radar of serious > eyes. However, hopefully this would be discovered upon merge (Volker is our > last defence). Also, this is a risk that is inherent to sage's development > model and I'm not sure that the sillility of the title correlates with this > risk factor. > > Perhaps a middle ground is putting something in the comments first indicating, e.g. "Silly title about foobars and zippos" could perhaps be changed to "Silly title about how foobars and zippos (they don't work on OS X 10.8 when applied to perfect fields)"? We all feel frustrated at times by things we have to do for Sage and so I understand the sentiment, but there also should not be any objection to clarification so those not in on the joke know what's going on. ++ Cases where this doesn't apply: spam or partial spam tickets, tickets with words commonly accepted as profanity in standard English, etc. - feel free to edit those appropriately. Those definitely fall in the category of unprofessional. Silly might not be so bad. Another case where it doesn't apply: tickets with titles not in English. I only say this because it happens to be the main language of Sage development, for better or for worse. My sense would be to keep the original title but add a parenthetical brief English summary, e.g. "Kleinsche Fläche fehlt in Sage (Add Klein bottle)". I think even a few of the translation tickets could benefit from that. But it's not an issue worth bikeshedding, so I'll stop there. - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
