Peter Johnson

One for v3 I think. ~~For further discussion see [v3 Development Project](https://github.com/delphidabbler/pashi/projects/1)~~

**Confirmed** that v3 will change default verbosity to "quiet".

~~Moved proposals to Google Docs file [v3-design](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osGTyrvQwLaz6bUpgln7MtwKNFIkUFyB/view?usp=drivesdk).~~

Forget [v3-design](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osGTyrvQwLaz6bUpgln7MtwKNFIkUFyB/view?usp=drivesdk) - there's only a PDF that can't be edited. The following is what that document said about the `--verbosity` command changes in v3, with a few errors corrected....

This all seems a little over complicated. I think it could be simplified as follows. The four states listed above will be retained: 1. _debug_ 2. _info_ 3. _warnings_ 4....

> The above _could_ be have their initial letters used as abbreviations. Maybe! _If_ this is done, it would be more friendly to just concatenate the required initial letters into...

> `--verbosity` will always be followed by a single parameter. The parameter will either be a comma separated list of verbosity states or a special parameter indicating no output. Would...

If the changes proposed in the later comments above are adopted then there's no reason not to make the changes in v2.x, without waiting for v3.

> If the changes proposed in the later comments above are adopted then there's no reason not to make the changes in v2.x, without waiting for v3. If the changes...

Although it seems sensible at first sight to exclude the synonyms, such as `-` and `no-warn` from the "set" values, it actually does no harm to allow them. For e.g....