Yeah, gripe is a bit idiomatic. How about
mach issue mach complain mach complaint mach feedback? (does it have to be negative, necessarily?) Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills > On 9 Aug 2016, at 01:57, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > I agree: "rage" is a bit aggressive. And as mconnor said on IRC, "rage" can > have an alternate meaning in the brogrammer lexicon. > > Speaking of bikeshedding, I was looking at a thesaurus and one of the > synonyms for "complain" is "yammer." As much as I want to rename it to > `mach yammer`, I think I'll hold off :) > > I think "gripe" conveys the right attitude. My only concern is it may not > be friendly towards those who don't speak English as their primary > language. I think verbs that describes a concrete human (re)action would be > more understood. Something like "groan" or "sigh." > > Anyway, we can continue the bikeshed in bug 1293493. > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Jim Blandy <jbla...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> LOL, but honestly, one of the ways I get myself to treat people better is >> to avoid the whole rage / tableflip / flame vocabulary when thinking about >> what I want to do. Could we publicize this as "mach gripe", and leave >> "rage" as an alias? >> >> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >>> Sometimes when hacking on Firefox/Gecko you experience something that irks >>> you. But filing a bug isn't appropriate or could be time consuming. You >>> instead vent frustrations on IRC, with others around the figurative water >>> cooler, or - even worse - you don't tell anyone. >>> >>> The Developer Productivity Team would like to know when you have a bad >>> experience hacking on Firefox/Gecko so we can target what to improve to >>> make your work experience better and more productive. >>> >>> If you update to the latest commit on mozilla-central, you'll find a new >>> mach command: `mach rage`. >>> >>> `mach rage` opens a small web form where you can quickly express >>> frustration about anything related to developing Firefox/Gecko. It asks a >>> few simple questions: >>> >>> * Where did you encounter a problem >>> * How severe was it >>> * What was it >>> * (optional) How can we fix it >>> >>> If you don't want to use `mach rage`, just load >>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDVC3IXJu5d33Hp_ZT >>> COw06xEUiYH1pBjAqJ1g_y63sO2vvA/viewform >>> >>> I encourage developers to vent as many frustrations as possible. Think of >>> each form submission as a vote. The more times we see a particular pain >>> point mentioned, the higher the chances something will be done about it. >>> >>> This form is brand new, so if you have suggestions for improving it, we'd >>> love to hear them. Send feedback to g...@mozilla.com and/or >>> jgrif...@mozilla.com. >>> >>> Happy raging. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-platform mailing list >>> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
