Hi Timothée! welcome aboard!
The change proposed is not only agreed by me but also needed. I don't have a
whole idea of which terms are wrong or need change but I do agree that
terminology is the basis of a good development, code, learning and support of
Synfig.
First I would start establishing the first requisite: English is the official
language for all the Synfig code, documentation and any material related to
language. I'm not expert on it but I do prefer American English over British
English (color instead colour). It can be discussed which flavor of English is
preferred.
Also I would like to mention that do a global change on the code is not a big
deal with the modern edition tools and search and replace all the occurrences
of one string is not so difficult. Other thing is that there were variations of
the same word (shortened for example) and we want to replace by other. This
might be done manually. I don't know about wiki and its complexity on changing
strings.
Finally I would like to know if this terminology fixing will cover the code
variable names too. It can be done but it is an internal thing that wouldn't
affect others than coders. I personally would prefer to take time documenting
the code instead of change the name of a variable or class. Also change the
code terminology implies to understand it first, which is a requisite to have
it well documented too.
Waiting for the first list of terms.
Cheers!
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De: Timothée Giet <[email protected]>
Para: [email protected]
Enviado: Jueves 10 de Mayo de 2012 13:44
Asunto: [Synfig-devl] Hi Synfig devs
Hi!
This is my first post on the synfig dev mailing list.
To introduce me quickly, I'm Timothée Giet aka Animtim (and aka Satrip on
synfig forum and some other places)
French graphic artist, loving free software and free culture…
So first topic, we discussed with Zelgadis at LGM about fixing the terminology
used in Synfig, as in some place we could use more specific terms, that could
fit better, be less confusing, and so enhance the synfig experience.
So first I'd like to know if everybody would be ok for such change.
Then we would need to agree on a list of the terms to change, and on the new
terms to use.
So as Zelgadis told me he already have a sort of list of names to propose, so
he can start by sending it here, then if others have suggestions to complete or
modify, just say it.
Then only at the end when everyone is ok with the final list, we can start the
huge task to rename everything in the code/translations/doc.
This is another part of the problem, but we'll see then.
Nice to be on this list, I hope we can get some good work done together :)
Tim
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