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Anaconda Messagification -- Suggestions on Readability and Style

  • Never use elipses. There's really just no place for dramatic pause in what we're presenting.
  • Exclaimation points should be avoided. The fact that we're starting text mode is not exciting, it's somber and depressing.
  • Avoid statements of ownership. Custom partitioning is not "specifying your own partitioning", it's just specifying partitioning.
  • Dialog titles should specify a category, not the verb which is being done within that category. "Running" does not tell a user to what the dialog refers.
  • Avoid jargon and abreviations that aren't in common usage outside of Anaconda. We do not run scripts "post-install", we run "post-installation scripts".