Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-doc (120 mails)

[Tanja <taroth@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 16 April 2007 11:24 Rebecca Walter wrote:
> On Monday 16 April 2007 11:16, jdd wrote:
> > Rebecca Walter wrote:
> > > We need to unify terminology for all the various types of sources from
> > > which packages are installed (CDs, DVDs, network sources, etc.).  So
> > > before I start saying what I think and why, I'd like to know what the
> > > community thinks. Please give me your reasoning for your preferred
> > > terminology.
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate feedback by the end of the week so we can get the
> > > discussion going and hopefully reach a decision soon.
> >
> > there should be a dictionnary or at least a wiki page with the
> > prefered terms (I know there is already such things for Novell)
> >
> > this is also very usefull for translations
>
> It's in the style guide. All this is already available.  What I need now is
> to know what I should add for this situation.
>
> http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Opensuse-style
>
> In the past, we had consistently used installation source, but some things
> happened that cost us that consistency.  So now we need to make an informed
> decision so we can encourage consistency again.
>

IMHO, the term "installation sources"  fits very well as does not explicitly 
name the actual medium the person installing his/her system may use 
(CDs/DVD/FTP tree or whatever) and OTOH the term is not too generic so that 
it could mean anything

Tanja
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