RFC: Suggestion of changing the button "Clone" to "Replicate"
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. Best Regards Wang Wen
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
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_Virtualizat... https://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_clone_overview.html http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-dojo/clone-and-move-virtual-machines-in-... 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
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Regards, - Christy
Hello Christy, Thanks for your tips as welll as Paulo's, let's go with "Clone" in the future Best Regards Wang Wen On 7/2/2014 4:00 AM, Christy Perez wrote:
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_Virtualizat... https://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_clone_overview.html http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-dojo/clone-and-move-virtual-machines-in-...
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
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Regards,
- Christy
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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
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