Re: Re: implementing emeritus

Lukas Smith wrote: > So we expect developers to learn non developer related terms yet common > developers terms are off limits, like "BC"? I personally am not in favor of becoming excessively verbose. Things like BC, CS and MFH may need to be defined somewhere, but developers generally should understand them. We aren't writing for third-graders here. Developers tend to easily pick up frequently used terms. After all, even "php" isn't a commonly used word... but within the domain of web programming, it is not hard to remember. All the useful other acronyms and abreviations spring to mind: LASER, FAX, km, HTML, XML, etc. They are very commonly used -- enough so that they appear in dictionaries and often are no longer capitalized. I wouldn't want to be without them. In this case, the term "emeritus" will not appear anywhere except in package.xml, and then only when someone no longer wishes to actively participate in package development. It will be merely a matter of looking it up. Nothing complicated about that. And what if you use a word like "retired"? There are a number of other words that could conceivably be substituted depending on the level of English knowledge of the developer. So it will have to be looked up anyway. Where's the problem? Klaus