[Kimchi-devel] RFC: Suggestion of changing the button "Clone" to "Replicate"

[Wen Wang]

Hello Paulo,

Thanks for the information and knowledge well acquired. Let's Keep 
"Clone" in this scenario.

Best Regards

Wang Wen

On 7/2/2014 1:11 AM, Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital wrote:
> Hello Wang,
>
> On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 14:51 +0800, Wen Wang wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I did some translation in last release and found out it is a little
>> bit odd to see the word "clone" under "Action" in Templates tab:
>>
>> In my point of view, "clone" is used in medical area in most cases and
>> I recommend to have it changed to "Replicate" which have the same
>> meaning that indicates to copy and paste the same template
>> configuration.
>>
> You are correct! The first definition of clone in dictionary is related
> to Biology [1], but also there's a common definition that can be used to
> things: "a person or thing that duplicates, imitates, or closely
> resembles another in appearance, function, performance, or style". Based
> on this definition, I think we can continue to use the word "clone".
>
> In addition, and in my point of view the most important, the term clone
> is already used in virtualization world to create a duplicated copy of a
> virtual machine or disk. Also, there's a command used to do that:
> "virt-clone" [2].
>
> So, from my point of view, the word is correct in this case.
>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Wang Wen
> [1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/clone
> [2] http://linux.die.net/man/1/virt-clone
>
> Best regards,
> Paulo Vital
>