I like the idea of updating changelogs where possible, though it may be
more complicated than pure text replacement, especially when a string is
used to describe something from the user interface.

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 7:21 AM Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]>
wrote:

> My vote is for updating changelogs where possible. Less obsolete
> terminology entries we have, the better for everyone. Of course
> retrospectively changing things like whitelisted-classes.txt filename for
> JEP-200 is not an option. But it is fine to do it where you just have text
> or Web UI controls. For the latter ones we might need to cleanup
> documentation and changelogs in parallel with the updates of changelogs.
>
> (@Angélique: thanks :P)
>
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 2:59 PM Angélique Jard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, what do you think about changing terminology in changelogs ? The
>> topic has been raised on Jira comment here:
>>
>> https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-65398?focusedCommentId=408976&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-408976
>>
>> I was not doing it because changing the past didn't seems accurate, but I
>> don't have a strong opinion, I would say "why not". Does anyone has some
>> opinion on that ?
>>
>> (@Oleg: I love that board by the way :D )
>>
>> On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 11:51:06 PM UTC+2 Oleg Nenashev wrote:
>>
>>> Do we have any terms we'd like to finalize during the next meeting?
>>> I have also created https://github.com/orgs/jenkinsci/projects/5 to
>>> track the related pull requests and to see where any help is needed
>>>
>>> On Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 10:12:31 AM UTC+2 Oleg Nenashev wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> We made decisions on a few terms at the yesterday's governance meeting:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Master node => "Built-in Node"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - "master" label => "built-in" // We will use it unless we discover
>>>>    a technical issue with the hyphen. Then we fallback to “builtin”
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - “Master branch” in documentation and help => "default branch"
>>>>    - Agent-to-Master security => " Agent-to-Controller security "
>>>>    - "Jenkins master container " => "Jenkins controller container"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - "Serialization whitelist" for JEP-200 => "serialization allowlist"
>>>>
>>>> We also agreed that we will be using "allowlist" in our terminology,
>>>> not the "permitlist" as it was suggested in a few occasions. We have not
>>>> finalized decisions on other terms, including the "Jenkins master pod". I
>>>> raised https://github.com/jenkinsci/kubernetes-operator/issues/561 in
>>>> the Jenkins operator project to track the change on its side once we agree
>>>> on the term.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone is interested, I can create a global "terminology cleanup"
>>>> project in the jenkinsci organization. It will allow tracking pull request
>>>> better on the GitHub's side
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Oleg Nenashev
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 12:02:42 PM UTC+2 Daniel Beck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > On 4. May 2021, at 16:59, Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > • Master node => "Built-in Node"
>>>>>
>>>>> To provide a bit of context for this one for those that don't remember
>>>>> from last year :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Before, there was no real distinction between "Jenkins master, the
>>>>> process" (mostly) and "Jenkins master, the node". When I worked on the PR
>>>>> in which I started cleaning up the terms, it became apparent a different
>>>>> term could be useful.[1]
>>>>>
>>>>> A simple example: The built-in node can be offline while the
>>>>> controller is otherwise running.
>>>>>
>>>>> In some code, the relation between master-specific and global node
>>>>> properties also wasn't clear in some places because both were occasionally
>>>>> called "master" (and only one set is inherited by agents).
>>>>>
>>>>> There's not a huge list of obvious examples because a lot of the
>>>>> things that could matter are shared (process, file system, config file to
>>>>> an extent) or irrelevant (node launcher).
>>>>>
>>>>> I still think it would be useful to distinguish in terms between the
>>>>> controller and the built-in node, if only because 'controller' for the 
>>>>> node
>>>>> may create wrong associations (it controlling things, rather than "just"
>>>>> being part of the controller process).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> However there are also limitations, which make a different term not an
>>>>> obviously correct choice:
>>>>>
>>>>> - The built-in node is part of the controller process, it shares the
>>>>> controller's file system and OS permissions. If the built-in node is doing
>>>>> work, the controller has load. A lot of resources are shared, so "the
>>>>> built-in node's configuration is stored in the config.xml file with most 
>>>>> of
>>>>> the controller configuration on the controller file system" etc.
>>>>> - People seem to confuse executors and nodes/agents fairly regularly,
>>>>> so may well consider these to be the same thing because the differences 
>>>>> are
>>>>> way less relevant than compared to agents, leading to wrong documentation
>>>>> and other advice, possibly confusing those aware of the terms. (It might
>>>>> help that controller as a term is getting rather well established, and 
>>>>> that
>>>>> the node will get labels (both UI and environment var) referring to it by
>>>>> its new name, but who knows.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I encourage you to check out the PR with placeholder term to get a
>>>>> sense for the differences and consider whether you think distinguishing 
>>>>> the
>>>>> terms is useful. As the PR is still a draft and uses an obvious 
>>>>> placeholder
>>>>> term, please skip doing an actual review for now.
>>>>>
>>>>> (Note that the behavior-changing code in my PR (related to migration)
>>>>> would be needed anyway, regardless of the term we choose. It's more about
>>>>> removing "master" than what the replacement term is.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 1: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/5425
>>>>>
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