Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
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

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-14 Thread Yuri D'Elia
On Tue, Jul 14 2020, Roman Bolshakov wrote: > I'm not a fan of the renaming movement solely for sake of virtual > signalling but here it makes sense. > > - remote / local > > Better carries the semantics and it’s short. In my setup master is local. __

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-14 Thread tk
Setting aside my thoughts on the practical impact renaming silliness... How about left/right? This is how StrongSwan (an IPSEC) client handles it. There may be no directionality implied, but there's still a concept of "stuff here" and "stuff there". On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, at 6:04 AM, Oswald Budd

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-14 Thread Andy W
Maybe getting away from the fundamental idea of directionality isn't at all possible, or at least implicit directionality? Consider this - whenever there is a sync operation, regardless of which direction that sync occurs, there is (perhaps) a direction of flow of traffic, at the lowest of levels,

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
brother/sister? itchy/scratchy? More seriously, why do we have to give them such generic names? Aren't they individually and explicitly given a meaningful name already anyway? E.g. Channel work Endpoint :work-remote: ... Endpoint :work-local: ... and that would na

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-14 Thread ARaspiK via isync-devel
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Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-14 Thread Roman Bolshakov
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 3:05 PM Oswald Buddenhagen < oswald.buddenha...@gmx.de> wrote: > 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

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:29:39AM -0400, Andy W wrote: Maybe getting away from the fundamental idea of directionality isn't at all possible, well, of course not. or at least implicit directionality? huh? the idea is to avoid suggesting a _particular_ direction (too strongly). So, with t

Re: going abolitionist

2020-07-14 Thread Marton Balazs
Postoffice / postbox? It's about mails after all, isn't it? :-) On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 07:13:50PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:29:39AM -0400, Andy W wrote: > > Maybe getting away from the fundamental idea of directionality isn't at > > all possible, > > > well