[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 | Keywords:
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== Reproduction
- When you file a new issue in Trac, there's a field called **"Contributor
Focuses"**.
== What is this field about?
1. The focus of the **contribution** (as in the focus of this issue) ?
2. Or the focus/specialization of the **contributor** (= the person who
contributes to the ticket)?
== Semantic Interpretation
- I strongly think the intended meaning is 1.
- Because if you wanted to learn about the contributor focuses (aka
interests/strengths/specialization of the WordPress community member
contributing to the issue, one would rather set that in the user profile,
not state that per each ticket).
- So very clearly this is about the focus(es) of this ticket.
- And "focus" in its plural also is linguistically quite dubious. A focus
usually is a laser sharp SINGLE point. So more synonymous with a category!
- This quite non-sensical label certainly was already misunderstood dozens
of time (from 60k total tickets), and filled wrongly for that reason.
== Proposed Change
- Change the label at least to: "Issue focuses" or "Contribution focuses"
- And if you want to get rid of the plural form "focuses", which I
recommend, then I propose the label to be: "Issue topic(s)" or just
"Tag(s)".
- The "s" in brackets to indicate that stating a single tag is also
accepted, extra tags are optional.
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Ticket URL: <https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7025>
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