Re: Naming, hacking, and policies

2019-03-31 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', Ludovic Courtès wrote: sirgazil skribis: Oh yeah, I'm not suggesting to translate "system names", but have both "system names" and "pretty names", and only the latter would be internationalized :) But even that is not really feasible: often there’s no “pretty name”, sometimes there’

Re: Naming, hacking, and policies

2019-03-31 Thread sirgazil
El 31/03/19 a las 3:31 p. m., Ludovic Courtès escribió: sirgazil skribis: El 31/03/19 a las 11:37 a. m., Ludovic Courtès escribió: Hi sirgazil, sirgazil skribis: I don't know exactly what should be done in Guix, though, but I think having a "system name" and a "pretty name" that is transl

Re: Naming, hacking, and policies

2019-03-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
sirgazil skribis: > El 31/03/19 a las 11:37 a. m., Ludovic Courtès escribió: >> Hi sirgazil, >> >> sirgazil skribis: >> >>> I don't know exactly what should be done in Guix, though, but I think >>> having a "system name" and a "pretty name" that is translatable could >>> help a little bit. >> >>

Re: Naming, hacking, and policies

2019-03-31 Thread sirgazil
El 31/03/19 a las 11:37 a. m., Ludovic Courtès escribió: Hi sirgazil, sirgazil skribis: I don't know exactly what should be done in Guix, though, but I think having a "system name" and a "pretty name" that is translatable could help a little bit. It’s a tricky topic indeed (and not speci

Re: Naming, hacking, and policies

2019-03-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi sirgazil, sirgazil skribis: > I don't know exactly what should be done in Guix, though, but I think > having a "system name" and a "pretty name" that is translatable could > help a little bit. It’s a tricky topic indeed (and not specific to Guix). There are i18n and accessibility (a11n) iss

Re: Naming, hacking, and policies

2019-03-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Andreas Enge skribis: >> >>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 03:02:00PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: I still think this change should be reverted >>> >>> I also think so. >> >> I’d also be in favor of reverting. > > I’m also in favour.

Re: Naming, hacking, and policies

2019-03-30 Thread sirgazil
El 29/03/19 a las 11:42 a. m., Ludovic Courtès escribió: [...] Packages usually have a “system name” (that’s the terminology used on Savannah) and a “pretty name”, like ‘guix’ and ‘GNU Guix’. I believe the intent of those guidelines was to suggest keeping the system name, not the fancy name.

Re: Naming, hacking, and policies

2019-03-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Andreas Enge skribis: > >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 03:02:00PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: >>> I still think this change should be reverted >> >> I also think so. > > I’d also be in favor of reverting. I’m also in favour. A pure revert would not be enough, th

Naming, hacking, and policies

2019-03-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Andreas Enge skribis: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 03:02:00PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: >> I still think this change should be reverted > > I also think so. I’d also be in favor of reverting. I mean perhaps some of the renames may be less controversial than others, but it looks l