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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Web stuff
From:       Amir Karger <karger () bead ! aecom ! yu ! edu>
Date:       1999-03-29 15:20:14
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On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 03:23:57AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>   >> Allan Rae writes:
>   AR> Why is the link labelled "Developers Only" instead of something
>   AR> less threatening like "Development"?
> 
> Because that is what I called it when I first created it. The name
> stuck.
> 
>   AR> "Developers Only" implies (to me) "Don't go near there unless
>   AR> you are already a developer!" when in fact there is a lot of
>   AR> info on the site describing what we're doing and why. Of course,
>   AR> "Developers Only" does have the benefit that it would help keep
>   AR> the load on nazgul low ;-)
> 
> There are plenty of access to cvsweb to keep the load on nazgul
> high...
> 
> Developers 'R Us

Cute, but it might get you sued

> Development

Functional, if boring.

> Devvies

Hm. Only makes sense if you read lyx-devel. Which is probably a good thing
for devvies to do, but...

> "come in and help"

:)

> But I still think that "Developers Only" is a nice name. Of course I
> do not have the same feeling for the language, but I do not get the
> meaning "Go away! you are not a developer!"

I'm afraid I sort of have to agree with Allan here. I've had a weird feeling
about "developers only" for a long time, but I figured I was the only one. I
fear that it sounds a bit like something calvin & hobbes would put on their
e-clubhouse. That makes one-and-a-half native english speakers to zero. (I
think allan and i will each give each other one half of a native english
speaker credit.)

-Amir

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