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| ~+'''Conclusion:''' The majority of respondents preferred the options that did not show a tilde.+~ | = Selected comments from respondents = == Person picker == "sqiggles are an implementation detail not typically in m mental map of people" "~ is useless there. Or drop the parenthesis and do it that way: Jonathan Lange ~jml" "~ denotes home folder and dd.net/~kms/ means web page in kms home folder. For those, who know this, ~jml is confusing. For those, who don't – I guess it's still confusing." "I do not see an additional value in the ~, I think it is reasonably clear that the latter name is a username." "Why would you put a ~ in there?" "The tilde does not convey extra information clearly, unless you are very familiar with a shell prompt." "~ clearly shows that this is a username" "People might not understand the ~ in the first one. Isn't the assumption that it's always a team/person and not a project/distro?" "Show me the email address anyway! It's the most useful UUID of the lot." "Using the ~ before a name is really only useful when taken out of context. For instance, if I want someone on IRC or a mailing list to go to Jonathan Lange's Launchpad profile, I might refer them to ~jml. On Launchpad itself, there is no need to include the ~, as it is assumed that it is referring to a Launchpad page. Since these are also clearly people, there is no possibility of confusing the names for project names." |
Tilde survey
Between 17.00 2011-05-25 and 17.00 2011-05-26 UTC, we ran a survey asking:
Which do you prefer?
Option A
Option B
Result: Option A 23.6%, Option B 76.4%
And:
Which do you prefer?
Option 1
Option 2
Result: Option 1 81.6%, Option 2 18.4%
Conclusion: The majority of respondents preferred the options that did not show a tilde.
Selected comments from respondents
Person picker
"sqiggles are an implementation detail not typically in m mental map of people"
"~ is useless there. Or drop the parenthesis and do it that way: Jonathan Lange ~jml"
"~ denotes home folder and dd.net/~kms/ means web page in kms home folder. For those, who know this, ~jml is confusing. For those, who don't – I guess it's still confusing."
"I do not see an additional value in the ~, I think it is reasonably clear that the latter name is a username."
"Why would you put a ~ in there?"
"The tilde does not convey extra information clearly, unless you are very familiar with a shell prompt."
"~ clearly shows that this is a username"
"People might not understand the ~ in the first one. Isn't the assumption that it's always a team/person and not a project/distro?"
"Show me the email address anyway! It's the most useful UUID of the lot."
"Using the ~ before a name is really only useful when taken out of context. For instance, if I want someone on IRC or a mailing list to go to Jonathan Lange's Launchpad profile, I might refer them to ~jml. On Launchpad itself, there is no need to include the ~, as it is assumed that it is referring to a Launchpad page. Since these are also clearly people, there is no possibility of confusing the names for project names."
