Re: [Trac-dev] Inconsistent terminology for TracLinks pointing to the repository browser

"source" is more descriptive since it is the noun you are linking to,  
a single source file.

--Noah

On Feb 6, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Ryan J Ollos wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I was going to open a ticket suggesting the following incosistency  
> with
> TracLink terminology
> * timeline: points to /timeline
> * log: points to /log
> ... and so forth
>
> Whereas,
> * source: points to /browser
>
> but would one would probably expect that:
> * browser: points to /browser
>
> I found that browser: was already implemented as a TracLink, which  
> is great!
>
> Is there a reason we would not want to add this to the Trac help  
> page [1],
> noting that browser: is an alias for source:, and suggest  
> deprecating the
> use of source:?  Or perhaps for 0.12 just mention the browser:  
> prefix for a
> TracLink and not mention the source: prefix for a TracLink?
>
> It seems preferable to use the browser: TracLink for the sake of  
> consistent
> terminology since it points to the TracBrowser, and a request matching
> /browser.
>
> As far as I can tell - repos, source, and browser are aliases for  
> the same
> TracLink [2].
>
> [1] http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracLinks
> [2]
> http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/trac/versioncontrol/web_ui/browser.py?rev=9156&marks=715,717-718#L703
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