Use a consistent term for change notification, change notice and change record

Created on 12 December 2013, about 11 years ago
Updated 12 September 2024, 3 months ago

Updated: Comment #N

Problem/Motivation

The issue queue used to use the two different tags for classifying issues "Needs change notice" and "Needs change notification" until it was cleaned up (issue). "Needs change notification" was chosen because it was used in the majority of cases. Yet, issues that need a record change start with "Change notice: ..."

The documentation Contributor task: Write up a change record for a Drupal core issue uses both "change record" and "change notification" terms in its alias, title and content.

The list of 'change records' for Drupal core is at https://drupal.org/list-changes (note the alias) and the content type is 'changenotice'.

I find notification a bit odd: we're not sending notifications in this context, we not notifying in the sense "inform (someone) of something, typically in a formal or official manner.". Notice or record sounds more appropriate. I could go with notice since it's used so much in the issue titles.

Proposed resolution

Standardize on "Change record":

  • On issue page sidebar, update link to add change record

Remaining tasks

execute changes above

User interface changes

API changes

📌 Task
Status

Fixed

Version

3.0

Component

User interface

Created by

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