[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#660202: Bug#660202: Bug#660202: messages about "membership" appear even for parent/child ticket linking

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Sat Feb 18 15:01:33 UTC 2012


On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:45:26PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:48:01AM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:00:52PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > When one links a ticket to another one by way of declaring another ticket
> > > a parent or child, the web interface displays this message:
> > > 
> > > #: lib/RT/Transaction_Overlay.pm:785
> > > #. ($value)
> > > msgid "Membership in %1 added"
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > #: lib/RT/Transaction_Overlay.pm:825
> > > #. ($value)
> > > msgid "Membership in %1 deleted"
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > That's confusing in English, let alone after translation. It looks like
> > > the same string is used both for describing group membership actions
> > > as well as for ticket linking actions. Please fix it so that a more
> > > appropriate string is used in the latter case. TIA.
> > 
> > What would you prefer it to say?
> 
> Anything that actually describes the said transaction properly? :) "Linked
> with %1" and "Unlinked from %1" looks reasonable enough - as long as it's
> normalized with all other terminology that appears elsewhere about the same
> action.

Linked probably isn't the best word, since we're talking about a specific
type of link here.

Membership of

sounds better than

Membership in

to me so I'll suggest that.

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