Re: [RFE] Demilitarize Documentation (was RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure))

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

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.