I'd be thrilled for us to use 'revert'.
Somehow I'd convinced myself that it'd be easier to ask for this if we kept the
'roll' part, but I'm not really sure why I thought so.
Of course, it's fine for folks to continue to _say_ 'roll out' due to habit; I
just think it would be great if our automated 'rollouts' turned into automated
'reverts' instead.
Ross
On 3/6/20, 6:31 PM, "Ryosuke Niwa" <rn...@webkit.org> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 6:15 PM Kirsling, Ross <ross.kirsl...@sony.com>
wrote:
>
> Late on Friday seems like a good time for a terminological debate (), so
I’d like to propose we revisit one of the strangest items of WebKit-specific
terminology: the phrase ‘roll out’.
>
> In our industry, the typical meaning of the phrase ‘roll out’ is, of
course, ‘deploy’ or ‘launch’; this corresponds with the colloquial usage of
‘roll out’ to mean ‘depart (for a destination)’. In WebKit, we use ‘roll out’
to mean the exact opposite, ‘revert’ or ‘roll back’.
I think the ship has sailed on this one. People who have been working
on the WebKit project for long enough are so used to the phrase
"rollout a patch" that it's gonna be tricky to change the terminology.
Having said that, I'd much prefer the term "revert" over "rollout" or
"rollback". It's also the term git uses.
> This term is confusing enough for native English speakers outside our
community, let alone non-natives (since phrasal verbs are notoriously tricky as
it is).
As a non-native speaker myself, I never find this term confusing
because I have no mental model of what "rollout" or "rollback" means.
However, I find those two terms infinitely more confusing than the
very direct "revert".
- R. Niwa
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