From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Senol Yazici'" <sypsilon@googlemail.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFE] Demilitarize Documentation (was RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure))
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:51:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001601d4c7aa$460c0e70$d2242b50$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
On February 18, 2019 11:13, I wrote:
> To: 'Senol Yazici' <sypsilon@googlemail.com>; git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
>
> 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)
It probably would be worth submitting this as an issue to the documentation project at https://github.com/git/git-scm.com. Depending on the response from the committers, I might be willing to take that on, but digging deeper, I'm not sure the terms I proposed as sufficient.
next reply other threads:[~2019-02-18 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-18 16:51 Randall S. Becker [this message]
2019-02-18 17:26 ` [RFE] Demilitarize Documentation (was RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)) Michal Suchánek
2019-02-18 18:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-19 8:02 ` Senol Yazici
2019-02-19 9:39 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-02-19 14:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-02-19 16:28 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-02-19 10:01 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-02-19 11:00 ` Senol Yazici
2019-02-19 14:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-02-19 16:20 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-02-20 19:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-02-19 20:16 ` Philip Oakley
2019-02-20 11:17 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-02-19 11:19 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-19 13:33 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-02-19 13:52 ` Christian Couder
2019-02-19 13:58 ` Michal Suchánek
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