Re: Monkeying with words: "Objective Lead" to "Initiative Lead"

What about projects? As in Fedora Project projects :P

/me ducks

Serious reply below.

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017, at 05:20 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 08:44:07AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > self-explanatory than I hoped it to be. I'd like to fix this. One quick
> > > thing I'd like to do is change "Objective" to "Initiative", which seems
> > > to be more intuitively understood. There's more, but does anyone object
> > > to me doing this as a first easy thing?
> >
> > I don't object, but I don't understand the difference or why it matters. To me:
> >
> > - objective: concrete thing you want to accomplish in a given timeframe
> > - initiative: set of related work items spread across multiple areas,
> > usually with a timeline much longer than an objective
> >
> > Which did you originally envision Fedora having?
>
> I think a little more like the latter; I think people's understanding
> of "objective" seems to be either an immediate task (maybe like "this
> quarter") or else something really big (more like "vision" in a formal
> model). I was aiming for what's possibly a _series_ of objectives over
> a 12-18 month period. I also like "work items spread across multiple
> areas" from your second point - that's one of the reasons we wanted
> these at the Council level.

I think that both work. I'd like the input of some non-American English
speakers for which is more commonly understood. That's the one we
should pick.

regards,

bex
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