Building Safety Into Our Work

[Octavian Damiean]

On 2011-05-20 23:10, Zachary Mitchell wrote:
> On 05/20/2011 04:06 PM, Jono Bacon wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 23:04 +0200, Octavian Damiean wrote:
>>> Having warning notices thrown everywhere sounds quite intrusive. It
>>> sounds a bit like approaches that other operating system took which can
>>> become quite annoying.
>>>
>>> This should come with an option to deactivate the warnings.
>> Agreed, warnings are a cheap and cheerful approach - it would not
>> require much time to implement, but could be annoying, and I think
>> people could ignore them.
>>
>> This is why I wanted to see if there are any smarter ideas out there to
>> solve this problem?
>>
>>> I would definitely help with the safety page.
>> Cool - could you write something up and present it here for feedback?
>>
>>     Jono
>>
> Someone earlier in the thread said something about threat levels.  I 
> think that this is a GREAT idea.  We could classify things based on 
> how far reaching their potential effects are, or whether a tweak 
> affects something at a really low level in the inner workings.
>
Thats sounds like a great idea actually.

I'm just throwing in some ideas now. Having certain options disabled, 
depending on the threat level with the option to activate the section. 
By activating it the users gets a short information of what possible 
side effects those tweaks can have.