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

[Wen Wang]

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_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
>
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