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

Josip Rodin joy at debbugs.entuzijast.net
Sun Feb 19 10:33:27 UTC 2012


On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 03:01:33PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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.

No, *membership* is the term I'm complaining about. When a ticket is made a
child of a parent ticket, it doesn't become its "member" in the same way a
user becomes a "member" of a group.

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