[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #7025: Field "Contributor Focuses" likely actually means "Contribution Focuses" as in "Focuses of this issue"

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#7025: Field "Contributor Focuses" likely actually means "Contribution Focuses" as
in "Focuses of this issue"
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 Reporter:  abitofmind   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:
Component:  Trac         |  Resolution:
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Comment (by abitofmind):

 1) Yes the term should describe the issue/ticket and not its target
 audience. If on the target audience, then clearer. Proposals below.

 2) Ad "Focuses" (plural form): Your source [https://grammarhow.com
 /focuses-or-foci/ Grammarhow: Focuses or Foci – What is The Plural of
 “Focus”?] already gives us a clear indication in its first sentence:

 > It’s not very common to see the plural form of “Focus”

 It then states that the Latin plural "Foci" or the regular English plural
 "Focuses" are both valid in English. Thats irrelevant for our discussion.
 Relevant is the fact that the plural for focus is "not very common". For
 good reasons:

 The only semantically meaningful plural forms of "focus" are sentences
 like "We tried different focus lengths on the microscope the whole
 forenoon. All those focuses didn't work".

 But at the subject matter at hand, the plural form makes little to no
 sense. In the context of professional life you may have multiple skills,
 specializations, interests, etc but you only ever have one focus. Also in
 psychology/medicine, etc the focus of attention can only ever be on one
 thing (though frequently hopping for people with high multi-tasking
 abilities). The term "focus" comes from the world of optics/physics. And
 there a light beam is is sharp at a single point (the focal point).

 The plural makes only sense when comparing multiple beams, or the same
 beam over different points in time.


 3) TRAC and WordPress use the word "issue" rather than "ticket".


 4) Proposals (with arguments 1-3 in mind):

 Wording that targets the contributors for the issue at hand:

 Suited for contributors skilled in:
 Required Dev Skill(s):
 Required Contributor Skill(s):
 Needed Implementation Skill(s):


 Targeting more on the needed contribution skills or the issue's domain

 Skill(s) needed for this issue:
 Needed skill(s):
 Tag(s)
 Issue concerns:
 Implementation requirement(s):
 Required Knowhow:

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