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Pedantic, but: can we replace the title with something like "Bug in AOSP breaks barometer, accelerometer usage."



No worries, it won't be long before a helpful mod comes along to change the title to "Issue 62938: Barometer driver hangs and kills accellerometer on its way." Enjoy the context we have until that happens.


I think that would be a much better title (minus the issue number).

As it is there's strong presumption that the bug is not in AOSP, so that's missleading. As for the "impeding science" part it's clickbait more than anything else IMHO.


What context? Right now the title is empty clickbait: "This bug in AOSP is impeding science. How to best get Google's attention?"


Context, being what does it affect, and why should anybody care. The current title accurately states what is affected (AOSP), and does a less great job of saying who should care (all scientists and probably the entirety of humanity, apparently). The "correct" title gives no indication of what is affected, and little motivation for caring. The title probably will change (they seem to do that, anyhow), but it will probably change for the worse. This is an argument that's been going for years, and it's not going anywhere, but I'm still going to gripe about it from time to time.




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