Re: Moving away from the term "karma" in Bodhi

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On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 08:47:57AM +0100, Sandro wrote:
> On 11-11-2024 08:27, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How about replacing the term "karma" with "kudos"? It has a similar ring to
> it and should be uncontroversial.

That's a great idea. If we are to change, please do 'kudos' rather
'rating'/'feedback'/'evaluation'.

Zbyszek

> Could the icon above the colon voor neutral (neither positive nor negative)
> be changed at the same time to make it more distinct? It now uses the same
> thumbs up as the positive colon, wrongly suggesting the default selection
> being positive karma|kudos|feedback when it actually doesn't add to the
> count.
> 
> -- Sandro
> 
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