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From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Senol Yazici'" <sypsilon@googlemail.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:12:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000b01d4c7a4$ce4db4b0$6ae91e10$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFacdQ8NDKfd0p8=9Rh3s4FPeS9mbqpQt8mw3AZoJn9jHjriPg@mail.gmail.com>

On February 18, 2019 5:47, Senol Yazici
> I just stumbled over following page
> 
> https://git-scm.com/about/distributed
> 
> and was wondering if it is possible to
> 
> - demilitarise that “dictator/lieutenant” thing and
> - de-religionise that “blessed” thing
> 
> I did not had the feeling that git is “pro military”, or is against “non religious”
> developers/users.

I think there is a point here. In some of my customers, we have replaced these terms with the following (the Repository is optional in the second two):

* Blessed: Repository of Record
* Dictator: Committer [Repository]
* Lieutenant: Contributor [Repository]

This seems more closely aligned with the real roles being applied to activities associated with the repositories involved.

Taking a lesson from other Open Source projects, Jenkins has deprecated Master/Slave in favour of Controller/Agent. This seems not only more acceptable to some, but in my view more descriptive. The terms on the page above do not actually make any descriptive sense to a newbie. And confusion could ensue from the dictionary definitions:

* Lieutenant: an aide or representative of another in the performance of duty : assistant (not what that repository is for)
* Dictator: one holding complete autocratic control : a person with unlimited governmental power (not how the git team behaves)
* Blessed: honored in worship : hallowed; of or enjoying happiness (although I can see the happiness part of this one)

Regards,
Randall



  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-18 16:13 UTC|newest]

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     [not found]   ` <5c657002.1c69fb81.d433c.32ce.GMR@mx.google.com>
2019-02-18 10:46     ` Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Senol Yazici
2019-02-18 16:12       ` Randall S. Becker [this message]
2019-02-18 20:59       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-02-19  1:08         ` Jason Pyeron
2019-02-19 11:43           ` Changing https://git-scm.com/about/distributed, was " Johannes Schindelin
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2019-11-25 13:36   ` Σταύρος Ντέντος
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2019-06-11 10:29   ` Xeno Amess
2017-11-23 18:51 Problem installing Git Phil Martel
2017-11-23 21:30 ` Igor Djordjevic
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2017-11-23 21:41     ` Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Igor Djordjevic
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2017-05-16 23:22 [Bug] git branch -v has problems with carriage returns Animi Vulpis
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2017-05-19 21:51       ` Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Atousa Duprat
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2015-03-08  0:36   ` Amate Yolande
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2013-03-14 22:01   ` Harring Figueiredo
2013-03-14 22:12     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-14 23:36       ` Harring Figueiredo
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2012-02-28 19:02   ` Rajat Khanduja
2012-02-28 19:48     ` Jeff King
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2011-04-08  2:41   ` David Xu
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2010-08-03  9:31   ` Simon Grönlund
2010-01-29 14:17 Implement --password option for git svn perl script Laszlo Papp
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2010-01-29 14:18   ` Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Laszlo Papp
2010-01-29 15:04     ` Frank Li
2010-02-01 16:16       ` Laszlo Papp
2010-02-02  4:15       ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-02-02  4:30         ` Frank Li
2010-02-02  6:37           ` Laszlo Papp

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