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

[Christy Perez]

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_Virtualization/3.0/html/Power_User_Portal_Guide/Manage_VM-Cloning_Virtual_Machine.html
https://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_clone_overview.html
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-dojo/clone-and-move-virtual-machines-in-virtualbox/

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