Re: [installer] One more template change?

[Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>]

I'm on the record as wishing we could rip out this whole terminology
of "low priority installs" and start again with something else
(Bug#796662), but at least here it is in principle possible for it to
make sense...

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Holger Wansing wrote:
>> I would propose to simplify/improve that like this:
> 
> I would suggest using consistently "question" instead of "item", and
> avoiding "reasonable default" as I'm not sure how widely that term is
> understood:
> 
>> You can select the priority of question you want to see:
>> - 'critical': you will only see items that will probably break the system
>>    without user intervention.
> 
> "only questions that are essential for a successful installation"
 
>> - 'high': items are shown, that don't have reasonable defaults, additionally
>>   to those from critical.
> 
> "also questions for which the default often needs to be changed"
> 
>> - 'medium': also show normal items that have reasonable defaults.
> 
> "also questions for which the default sometimes needs to be changed"
> 
> > - 'low': even show trivial items that have defaults which will work in
> >   the vast majority of cases.
> [...]
> 
> "all questions, even if the default only rarely needs to be changed"

In other words 

  You can select the priority of question you want to see:
   - 'critical': only questions that are essential for a successful installation
   - 'high': also questions for which the default often needs to be changed
   - 'medium': also questions for which the default sometimes needs to be changed
   - 'low': all questions, even if the default only rarely needs to be changed

Or perhaps putting some words back in:

  Please select the questions you want to be shown by priority level:
   * "critical": only show questions that are essential for a successful installation;
   * "high": also show questions for which the default often needs to be changed;
   * "medium": also show questions for which the default sometimes needs to be changed;
   * "low": show all questions, even if the default only rarely needs to be changed.

Some alternatives that people might like more than I do:

  Please select the cutoff level for questions that you want to be asked:
   * "critical": only show questions that always require user attention;
   * "high": also show ones for which the default often needs changing;
   * "medium": also show ones for which the default sometimes needs changing;
   * "low": show all questions, even if the default only rarely needs changing.

>> "For example, this question is of medium priority, and if your priority were "
>> "already 'high' or 'critical', you wouldn't see this question."
>>
[...]
>> For example, this question is of medium priority, and if your actual priority
>> would be 'high' or 'critical', you wouldn't see this question.

(I think that's a false-friend use of "actual". and it's definitely an
unidiomatic "would", though personally I wouldn't use "were" either.)

I don't like this idea that it's "my" priority that's "high".  It
isn't even the installer's priority - it's the degree of filtering
applied to questions in *terms* of priority, and that's a horrible
thing to have to explain concisely.  Maybe we can just say:

    For example, this question is of medium priority, so if you had chosen to see
    only questions of 'high' or 'critical' priority, it wouldn't be shown.

-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package