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Ticket #268 (closed enhancement: fixed)
I wish to be free of the use of the word "blame" to mean responsibility.
| Reported by: | zooko | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 0.8.7 |
| Version: | 0.7.7 | Keywords: | web |
| Cc: | dustin |
Description
I don't like the use of the word "blame" to mean who is responsible for an event or a version, for example, the buildbot status pages are showing me something called "Blamelist".
Change History
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by ganesh
The word "blame" doesn't bother me so much as the fact that with the current behaviour, it targets a person rather than a patch or patches. I think the ideal behaviour would be to identify which patches are present in the failing run that were absent in the last *successful* run.
In fact, once there has been one failing run (A), subsequent failing runs should perhaps identify the delta between run A and the previous successful run (B) as special, no matter how many further patches have been added.
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by dustin
My plan, for BuildbotOneOh?, is to be very flexible in determining changes and diffs between sourcestamps. As a result, we'd be able to show any and all of the above.
I agree with ganesh, though -- the term "blame" is pretty embedded in the source, and is common across VC systems. I consider it a term of art, separated from its usual English meaning.
comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by zooko
For what it is worth, darcs doesn't have a command named "blame". It is called "annotate". The term "blame" was originated by SVN as an alias for "annotate", and I sincerely hope that usage of that term dies out.
comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by dustin
- Keywords web added
- Milestone changed from 1.0.0 to 0.8.1
If it's just a rename on the web interface, that should be fairly straightforward.
comment:9 Changed 12 months ago by dustin
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
commit ccf072c16f53832cdb533908779be58418cf0fdb
Author: Edmund Wong <ewongbb@pw-wspx.org>
Date: Thu May 31 23:01:14 2012 +0800
Changed "Annotate" to "Responsible Users"
commit e77702b83e5f63bced6e0891e721b7fef969f582
Author: Edmund Wong <ewongbb@pw-wspx.org>
Date: Thu May 31 17:40:45 2012 +0800
Fix ticket #268.
I am trying to get a buildbot-centric development practice entrenched in the darcs project, and the fact that it uses the word "blame" and names a person is causing a problem. If it instead identified which patches are present in the failing run that were absent in the previous run, it would probably be more constructive.