[forge-dev] What to do about our little Windows joke...?

[George Gastaldi]

Hello all !

Let's just write the OS info that forge is running and that's it :)

The jokes could be displayed as easter eggs on Forge later ( like, when you read the help of a plugin too many times, etc)

Em 24/07/2012, às 16:42, Paul Bakker <paul.bakker.nl at gmail.com> escreveu:

> What you guys like jokes? How unprofessional! 
> 
> Unfortunately there is a large group of developers that thinks that way... I wish it were different, but it would probably be best to remove this stuff. We won't "win" any users by adding jokes, but we might piss some people off.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Jul 24, 2012, at 21:31 , Marius Bogoevici wrote:
> 
>> I enjoy the joke quite a lot, however, we've got to be aware that
>> our software often ends up being used in environments which are far 
>> less inclined towards the jocular, and where humorous is basically 
>> considered unprofessional.
>> 
>> A pluggable fortune-like functionality, turned off by default should
>> be ideal. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com>
>>> To: "forge-dev List" <forge-dev at lists.jboss.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:58:15 PM
>>> Subject: [forge-dev] What to do about our little Windows joke...?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hey everyone... we've recently gotten some critical feedback about
>>> our little "Windows? Really? Ok..." joke.
>>> 
>>> https://community.jboss.org/message/749952#749952
>>> 
>>> What are your thoughts? Perhaps we could make this a little less
>>> targeted by turning it into more of a pluggable feature, where
>>> different messages show up randomly based on runtime conditions?
>>> 
>>> Like sometimes it might say, "Just 32 bits?" or "Sun still makes
>>> Java?" or "Linux... nice... does your family know?" or "OSX? What is
>>> a lion, anyway?"
>>> 
>>> Would like to hear ideas. But I certainly don't want to give up the
>>> character :)
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Lincoln Baxter, III
>>> http://ocpsoft.org
>>> "Simpler is better."
>>> 
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