On 28 April 2017 at 10:39, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
"Lights up"
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People reacted strongly to this. I'm not surprised — but, personally, I
still kinda like it. Sure, it's jargon, but I don't think the metaphor
is hard to understand. And, I didn't hear an alternative better than
"enables", which feels particularly weak to me. This isn't the hill I
plan to die on, though, if everyone hates it. I'd still love to hear
something more interesting than "enables".
I personally like enables. The reason being that we are going to use
this phrase for 5 years.. every day and jargon rarely ages well. [As
of 2 weeks ago "lights up" seemed to mean this meme when I asked some
people
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/expanding-brain which was "old"
by the time I asked it.] But in any case jargon that lights up the
neurons usually becomes the "Oh my lord, that old chestnut?" {to use
my edwardian jingoism} soon after. Using plain boring language of
enables makes sure that if lights up goes from brains expanding to
burning down projects in 6 months.. we aren't scrambling to say "no no
we don't mean we want to kill all baby kittens because that is what
you think it means today"
Platform vs. Platforms / "Supports an Ecosystem"
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There was some discussion about whether we build _a_ platform or
multiple platforms. And, related, some of the earliest comments were
about an ecosystem emphasis. I think the above section actually
addresses this — a platform with an ecosystem is exactly the intent,
and I really think the draft as proposed carries that well. I'd very
much welcome help with additional supplemental and explanatory
material, though.
My love of platforms is no hill to die on either.. so I can go with
that term :).
Thank you for the counter-feedback.
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Stephen J Smoogen.