Loaded terms in free software

Posted Jun 18, 2020 6:06 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Loaded terms in free software by Cyberax
Parent article: Loaded terms in free software

We (=Germans) don't translate "leader" as "Führer", for obvious reasons. "Anführer" would be the closest acceptable choice, though depending on context there are others.

German IT slang has mostly used master/slave, untranslated. This is probably going to change, but I have no idea what we'll end up with.

Personally I'm not too fond of the whole leader/follower concept anyway and would rather use source/mirror or something along these lines.

Loaded terms in free software

Posted Jun 18, 2020 15:31 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link] (1 responses)

> would rather use source/mirror or something

Many projects like PostgreSQL have adopted primary/replica.

Loaded terms in free software

Posted Jun 18, 2020 21:53 UTC (Thu) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link]

Git itself uses origin and clone. :)