[Trac] Headline news: Cookie expiration causes boss to panic

Federico Di Gregorio fog at initd.org
Wed Feb 9 05:18:21 EST 2005


Il giorno mer, 09-02-2005 alle 09:32 +1100, Sarah George ha scritto:
> I had a rather funny experience yesterday. I was showing my boss what 
> Trac looks like and at one point we had closed the browser and then went 
> back to it and got the normal "cookie expired, login or be anonymous" 
> error.

Very funny. :)

But I agree that even if it is a minor annoyance it is still an
annoyance. Programmers give a different, "softer" meaning to "error"
while others are scared by it. I suppose trying to avoid term as error,
warning, problem and such in informative messages is a good idea.
 
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Federico Di Gregorio                         http://people.initd.org/fog
Debian GNU/Linux Developer                                fog at debian.org
INIT.D Developer                                           fog at initd.org
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