<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 at 10:06 Thomas Kluyver <<a href="mailto:thomas@kluyver.me.uk">thomas@kluyver.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Jun 27, 2017, at 04:58 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:<br>
> On Jun 25, 2017, at 11:33 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:<br>
> >I'd favour "Participate" over any variant of "Contribute", as without<br>
> >context, "Contribute" makes me think of financial support in the<br>
> >crowdfunding/tip jar sense.<br>
><br>
> "Participate" may mean two different things.<br>
><br>
> * Here's the development home, with a repo and issue tracker,<br>
> contributions<br>
> welcome!<br>
><br>
> * Here's the mailing list or other forum where we discuss the future of<br>
> Guido's Magical Mystery Time Machine.<br>
<br>
Perhaps this points to labelling URLs with nouns rather than verbs:<br>
things like 'mailing list', 'source code' or 'issue tracker' seem less<br>
ambiguous than 'participate' or 'contribute'.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree with Thomas on this one. Seeing a link that says "Participate" just feels like it's missing an exclamation point and subtext saying I could earn $2,000/week from it. ;)<br><br></div><div>Since this has turned into bikeshedding over names when we have a general metadata solution, I've filed <a href="https://github.com/takluyver/flit/issues/116">https://github.com/takluyver/flit/issues/116</a> and consider my question answered. :)<br></div></div></div>