cjakeman, on 03 November 2012 - 08:17 AM, said:
I was volunteering to change all the dozens of messages so they indicate OR's position regarding the message. I.e this warning message is identifying bad data and that information message is identifying some feature that OR may (or may not) implement in the future.
Okay, well, I don't like the proposed message changes that much but I'll support changing anything where it is skipping unknown data to be Information instead of Warning (and worded the same).
One reason is that "Skipped unknown <type> <name>" is
what actually happened where as saying it is not implemented is making an assertion that we know about it. Ideally, all known but unimplemented items would be "Information: skipped not implemented <type> <name> in <location>" and typos would be "Warning: skipped unknown <type> <name> in <location>" but I don't know that we can really do that well everywhere. Thus, I'd prefer to keep the message stating only what we
know - that it was skipped because it is unknown (to Open Rails at this time).