> 6 марта 2020 г., в 18:29, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> написал(а): > > 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".
I've been using "roll back" lately, but "revert" seems perfectly fine. - Alexey > 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 > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
