On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:03:20AM +0300, Evgeniy Berdnikov wrote:
Consider 'parent' and 'child': 2nd sounds like 'replica' or 'clone'.

not bad. we might have a winner right off the bat. ^^

Many wrote:
"remote" and "local" could work.

nice try, but nope - while this terminology reflects the typical use case, mbsync supports either side being local or remote. also, reading the manual you'll find that "remote" is already used to mean "the opposite side".

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 06:41:12PM -0400, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
  - source / stream   (where a river begins is called a source)

that metaphor doesn't work for me at all - there's a disproportion of size, a suggestion of constant motion, and it's again strictly directional.

Twitter published something related to this,

their leader/follower pair is novel to me, and it's indeed a good fit for the dreaded master-slave flip-flop in digital electronics. however, in our context it again implies too much directionality (just like their other suggestions).

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 06:57:55AM +0300, Roman Bolshakov wrote:
I'm not a fan of the renaming movement solely for sake of
virtual [sic!] signalling [...]

here's a nice quote for you:
> It is impossible to complain about virtue-signaling without > virtue-signaling (or dog-whistling to the alt-right).

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 06:28:37AM +0000, synflower--- wrote:
How about male / female?

...sorry ...

grow up, man (?) ... ;)

thanks so far, and keep the constructive (!) ideas coming, everyone!
no need to "vote" - this ain't no democracy here. ^^


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