📖What it means

The reviewer's verdict that the work is not acceptable. A fail is INFORMATION — it says what is missing. Lowering a threshold or relaxing a criterion to turn a fail green destroys that information and is forbidden.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Blocked", "distinction": "Fail is a judgment on the work; blocked is a state the work is left in."}, {"term": "Vacuous", "distinction": "A fail found something wrong; a vacuous review found nothing to judge at all."}]

📖Also called

- rejected
- red
- not accepted

📖Filed under

Category: general.

Service: Build Initiatives.