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

[Arthur G <arthurg.work@xxxxxxxxx>]

I blame the Golgafrinchans.

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 at 10:30, Leslie Satenstein via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I use 3 languages in human speech, and I have in-house three cultures.

When we talk of a person and his actions, we say he has good karma.

Karma is a feeling. Karma may be applied to groups, like a troup of boy scouts.

I feel that, as was noted, karma is a cold or warm fuzzy feeling.

I prefer just "feedback", as a term. Second would be "update feedback".

Leslie Satenstein    

On Monday, November 11, 2024 at 11:25:53 a.m. EST, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Lukas Ruzicka wrote:
> Well, I am very sad about this step and I feel very sorry that you are
> trying to remove the word karma from the process. I believe that Karma
> denotes one of the most powerful, the most noble, and the most fair
> principles of this world, because traditionally it is above this world.

I think this is _why_ we should change it. We don't mean _any_ of that. We
mean "does this package update look good, or does it have bugs that should
block its release". Our use trivializes the term.

I think "update feedback" is perfectly clear and more descriptive.

I also do not think our use of the term is particularly special to Fedora.
I'm not sure if Slashdot popularized it, or if they just absorbed it from
somewhere else, but it definitely wasn't unique when we began using it.

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader

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