On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 05:51:18PM +0000, Mattia Verga via devel wrote: > The original request to change the term "karma" in Bodhi was https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues/4321 > > I see some points which are in favor to the renaming: > - we are using the term like a "joke" while it has religious connotations. > - even not considering that, we are misusing the concept of karma (as I understand it): giving positive karma to an update doesn't give back positive karma on your own update, and vice versa. > - the third, which is why I agree with the change (I told you I'm not interested in being politically correct...), is that I saw multiple times new users confused by the terminology "give karma to the update". Thank you for the link, it helps understand where this request is coming from. I'd evaluate the motivation for the change as very weak. In the past we changed some terms when we were worried that they are offensive. But this is not the case here. It's true that we're using the term in a way that has little to do with the original meaning, but we're certainly not making fun of the original idea or anything else. Instead, in a completely normal process, we're applying a term from the outside world to the world of programming with a meaning that is only loosely connected. We have bytes and bits, words, trees, directories, folders, files, firewalls, sockets, pools, streams, children and parents, dead and alive, sleeping or hibernating, we kill and orphan, boot and kick and so on. Let's keep the karma term for good karma. Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
