RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

From: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2019, 16:12 UTC
Message-ID: <000b01d4c7a4$ce4db4b0$6ae91e10$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFacdQ8NDKfd0p8=9Rh3s4FPeS9mbqpQt8mw3AZoJn9jHjriPg@mail.gmail.com>

On February 18, 2019 5:47, Senol Yazici

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> I just stumbled over following page
> 
> https://git-scm.com/about/distributed
> 
> and was wondering if it is possible to
> 
> - demilitarise that “dictator/lieutenant” thing and
> - de-religionise that “blessed” thing
> 
> I did not had the feeling that git is “pro military”, or is against “non religious”
> developers/users.

I think there is a point here. In some of my customers, we have replaced these terms with the following (the Repository is optional in the second two):

* Blessed: Repository of Record
* Dictator: Committer [Repository]
* Lieutenant: Contributor [Repository]

This seems more closely aligned with the real roles being applied to activities associated with the repositories involved.

Taking a lesson from other Open Source projects, Jenkins has deprecated Master/Slave in favour of Controller/Agent. This seems not only more acceptable to some, but in my view more descriptive. The terms on the page above do not actually make any descriptive sense to a newbie. And confusion could ensue from the dictionary definitions:

* Lieutenant: an aide or representative of another in the performance of duty : assistant (not what that repository is for)
* Dictator: one holding complete autocratic control : a person with unlimited governmental power (not how the git team behaves)
* Blessed: honored in worship : hallowed; of or enjoying happiness (although I can see the happiness part of this one)

Regards, Randall