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Description issue[edit]

Please fix the description where it says "This is a perennial request to fix some long-standing technical debt" to instead read "This is a perennial request to fix some long-standing technical defict". The words are not interchangeable, though I can see how a non-native English user could arrive at "debt" here.  — SMcCandlish ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ʌ<  19:49, 28 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

@SMcCandlish: I'm a native English speaker. As far as I can tell, this is technical debt - it wasn't the intended behaviour, but no-one's got around to fixing it yet. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:57, 28 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
As a native English speaker, the phase technical debt seems fine here. * Pppery * it has begun 20:21, 28 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
If you say so. It's not an idiom I've ever encountered in my life, and I'm in my 50s and I work tech. Perhaps it's geographically specific.  — SMcCandlish ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ʌ<  20:31, 28 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
@SMcCandlish: see en:Technical debt. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:37, 28 January 2022 (UTC)Reply