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List:       webkit-dev
Subject:    Re: [webkit-dev] Terminology: Could we change 'roll out' to 'roll back'?
From:       Alexey Proskuryakov <ap () webkit ! org>
Date:       2020-03-07 3:11:07
Message-ID: C3DF61B4-156F-452C-9A12-3198E71F2431 () webkit ! org
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> 6 марта 2020 г., в 18:29, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org> \
> написал(а): 
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 6:15 PM Kirsling, Ross <Ross.Kirsling@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
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