On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Marius Bogoevici <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mariusb@redhat.com" target="_blank">mariusb@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> From: "Dan Allen" <<a href="mailto:dan.j.allen@gmail.com">dan.j.allen@gmail.com</a>><br>
> To: "forge-dev List" <<a href="mailto:forge-dev@lists.jboss.org">forge-dev@lists.jboss.org</a>><br>
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> Subject: Re: [forge-dev] What to do about our little Windows joke...?<br>
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> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Marius Bogoevici <<br>
> <a href="mailto:mariusb@redhat.com">mariusb@redhat.com</a> > wrote:<br>
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> ----- Original Message -----<br>
> > From: "Paul Bakker" < <a href="mailto:paul.bakker.nl@gmail.com">paul.bakker.nl@gmail.com</a> ><br>
> > To: "forge-dev List" < <a href="mailto:forge-dev@lists.jboss.org">forge-dev@lists.jboss.org</a> ><br>
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> > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 3:42:15 PM<br>
> > Subject: Re: [forge-dev] What to do about our little Windows<br>
> > joke...?<br>
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> > What you guys like jokes? How unprofessional!<br>
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> > Unfortunately there is a large group of developers that thinks that<br>
> > way... I wish it were different, but it would probably be best to<br>
> > remove this stuff. We won't "win" any users by adding jokes, but we<br>
> > might piss some people off.<br>
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> They aren't amused.<br>
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> Seriously, if people are offended because someone criticizes Windows,<br>
> then my feeling is that they are just reading too much into it. It's<br>
> not like the Windows shell is so amazing it doesn't warrant some<br>
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</div>I didn't discuss Windows jokes in particular, I was making a deadpan reference<br>
to the Victorian-like morals of professionalism vs. humour, answering Paul<br>
(who was answering me in turn).<br>
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Now that you bring it up, someone may feel it's not our business to<br>
criticize their environment, as horrible as it is (everyone likes funny<br>
as long as they're not the target). In that light, if we go with the jokes, we may want to<br>
add a self-deprecating note and that may be fine too (right now it really sounds like<br>
we're mocking them, which is a kind of humour not everyone will partake in).<br>
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But, generally speaking, we may want to reflect whether we want to potentially filter<br>
our audience by exercising our sense of humour on them, or do other things<br>
like making this feature (which I am sure a lot of users will enjoy) optional.<br>
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... or another option is to just add 'Wink,wink! Nudge,nudge!' after the message. That would have<br>
my full approval.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>:)</div><div><br></div><div>I hear ya.</div><div><br></div><div>The summary seems to be "comment on the command line impl specifically, not the OS in general", "make it clear it's just a joke with a emotion" and finally, "display it only once".</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think those are reasonable action items to keep the humor in. If it really does turn people off of Forge, I suppose I'd have to reevaluate my position :)</div><div><br></div><div>-Dan</div><div>
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</div></div>-- <br><div>Dan Allen</div>Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action<br>Registered Linux User #231597<br><br><div><a href="http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen" target="_blank">http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen</a><br>
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