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

On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 14:11 -0300, 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. Just to illustrate that clone is a very commonly used word for VMs: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtuali... https://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_clone_overview.html http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-dojo/clone-and-move-virtual-machines-... So we're just keeping with the rest of the industry on this one. >> Best Regards >> >> Wang Wen > [1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/clone > [2] http://linux.die.net/man/1/virt-clone > > Best regards, > Paulo Vital > > _______________________________________________ > Kimchi-devel mailing list > Kimchi-devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/kimchi-devel > Regards, - Christy _______________________________________________ Kimchi-devel mailing list Kimchi-devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/kimchi-devel