Document requirements for a language color change #4487
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| If there are official branding guidelines to support the colour choice, please link to those too. | ||
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| Please note that Linguist currently implements a [color proximity test][color-proximity-test] to ensure colors are sufficiently different from one another so you may not be able to use the precise color you want - reds and blues are really popular. | ||
| As such, we recommend you test the color change locally before making your plea to the wider language community. |
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Before we promulgate this as a restriction, we should really wait for the final consensus as to whether or not the colour-proximity requirements will ever be axed in future.
We have no idea how long it might take to reach a consensus. Members of a language's community could spend weeks bikeshedding as to whether a compromise for their project's official branding should be taken, simply their shade of red was too close to 5-6 other shades of red. How bad would we (GitHub/Linguist) look if the colour restriction was suddenly abolished the day after they reached an agreement?
Obviously we can't expect it to take that long to decide on a hex colour value, but you know what people are like...
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Before we promulgate this as a restriction, we should really wait for the final consensus as to whether or not the colour-proximity requirements will ever be axed in future.
We may be waiting a while. I've given my issue a nudge to see if I can get a quick response, but it's in a long list of other higher priority issues. The best thing to do is assume the status quo for now, we can easily remove the note when we remove the test.
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Fair enough, then.
I might be getting anxious for the outcome because there's a lot hanging on the removal of proximity requirements. We can finally degroup the languages touched on in #4291, add official colours for data/prose formats (which matters now that we have linguist-detectable), and a whole heap of other nags...
😆 It really hurt to write "color" so many times but it's GitHub's preferred version of English so we gotta use it. |
Description
Changing a language's colour has become a bit of a hot topic recently so I'm adding a section to the CONTRIBUTING.md, PR template and issue template advising on what is now required for a colour change.
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Doesn't apply as this is a documentation change.