Evolve naming troubles

Sean Farley sean at farley.io
Mon Feb 6 22:16:47 UTC 2017


Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> writes:

> On 01/20/2017 07:11 PM, Sean Farley wrote:
>> While we are in a freeze and have some time to think about things
>> outside of features, I'd like to bring up naming evolution terms before
>> they are permanently frozen.
>>
>> I'll keep this mostly short with a list of current names and suggested
>> replacements but I hope we can finalize this at the next sprint. The
>> following suggestions are from an IRC a little while ago.
>
> Thanks you very much, for looking into this and starting this thread.
>
> I've spent some time today to build a wiki page to gather the result of 
> that discussion: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/CEDVocabulary
>
> I've also reached out to "Timeless" to act as a "word expert" on this. 
> The idea is to build a small group of people willing to dissect the 
> semantic and etymology of all proposals. The goal is to prepare and 
> curate the list we'll have to discuss at the sprint. Reach out to me if 
> you are interested in spending time doing such analysis (I'm contacting 
> Sean too).
>
> I'll spend more time this week to:
>   * make a clean-up pass on the definition of that page,
>   * update the page with reply from this thread (feel free to do it 
> yourself as you reply),
>   * give my own opinion on the proposals,

Thanks for making a wiki; should be helpful during the sprint. Should we
keep discussing on the mailing list?


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