Jargon: why not "coolfix" instead? It connotes: 1 - No severity (cool vs. hot) 2 - Novelty (cool==neat) 3 - It does indeed make some changes to the core, but nothing crucial 4 - It doesn't require you to feed it bananas ;) Sean -----Original Message----- From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:brian.lloyd@zope.com] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:04 PM To: marc lindahl; zope@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] Ruling from the bench regarding 'Hotfixes' :)
I disagree -- there needs to be a clearer distinction between products that add new functionality and those that change existing behavior.
We need some clearly defined terms for these areas. That much is obvious - already the user (product building) community has interpreted the word 'hotfix' differently than ZC has intended...
Some pithy names would go a long way towards this goal -- HotPatch - very evocative!
My argument is that that is a documentation issue. If people strongly disagree and think that new jargon needs to be invented, that's ok, but the new jargon should not be "Hotxxx" or anything that could be confused with "hotfix", for jargon-backward-compatibility reasons.
I for one would like to be able to do Product searches and have a list for Core Enhancements as separate from Added Functionality...
I don't really understand the distinction as put here. To me, a product just lets me do something that I wouldn't be able to do without it. Core Session Tracking is both a core enhancement and added functionality. I suspect you mean "products that add new objects" and "products that modify existing objects". I suspect that is not a primary criteria most people would use to look for products (though this is separate from the jargon issue - it is really a categorization issue).
From the jargon standpoint, I could see some piece of jargon that equals what we currently call "monkey patch" being useful as a shorthand amongst product developers (but it should not be a word that can be confused with hotfix).
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