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
