Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

Hi all,

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.

Thank you very much,

Senol Yazici

On February 18, 2019 5:47, Senol Yazici

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

Hi,

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019, Senol Yazici wrote:

Those are valid concerns, and I value your feedback.

It would probably be a good thing to change this, and you can even do it yourself: create a Pull Request to change this file:

https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/app/views/about/_distributed.html.erb

Looking forward to your enhancements, Johannes

Curious, where are the sources for the PNGs saved? I did not find any obvious vector or art project files.

-Jason

Hi Jason,

let's belatedly fix the incredible misrepresenting subject line.

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019, Jason Pyeron wrote:

As you can see clearly from that page, the PNG in question is called workflow-c@2x.png and it lives in /images/about/. Using the Ctrl+T trick on GitHub even reveals the location in the repository:

https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/blob/master/public/images/about/workflow-c@2x.png

Clicking on the History link (https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/commits/master/public/images/about/workflow-c%402x.png) reveals that this file was first committed in https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/commit/e640167a2687eae2d1ed30c5b0d003bfb09e88c3. Since that commit message only talks about adding Retina versions (@2x), let's look at the history of the original PNG: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/commits/master/public/images/about/workflow-c.png

At some stage of digging, you will invariably figure out that all of the figures come from the ProGit book, the dictator/lieutenant one from https://github.com/progit/progit2/blob/master/images/benevolent-dictator.png

A little more digging would have revealed that those figures are all generated from one file: progit.sketch. Its history: https://github.com/progit/progit2/commits/master/diagram-source/progit.sketch indicates that you need Sketch3 to open/modify that file.

I found that I can open that file on Windows (where Sketch is not supported) using Lunacy from https://icons8.com/lunacy and the diagram in question seems to be on the page 05 - Workflows.

Please note that all of what I described is available publicly, I had no idea about it, all I know is how to use the tools to find out. Which is why I described it so that you can know how to use the tools to answer your questions, too.

Ciao, Johannes