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Change products.core to lowercase "self-hosted" #19083

Closed rmloveland closed 2 weeks ago

rmloveland commented 3 weeks ago

Formerly, this variable was capitalized as "Self-Hosted" which could be confusing since it implied the term was a proper noun. However, it is not. There is no such Product Name (tm), it's just an adjective referring to the deployment model.

Related to DOC-10665

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rmloveland commented 3 weeks ago

@jaiayu tagging you FYI, no need to review this two character change :-)

@taroface thanks for the docs team discussion that prompted this - @jaiayu and I discussed with Product Marketing in DMs, and Ayushi decided let's just go with lowercase for now and reassess, and PMM was ok with that

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taroface commented 3 weeks ago

This is the change we discussed. Also as discussed, though, it may lead to some unintentional or awkward wordings, like here:

The CockroachDB self-hosted integration with Datadog enables data collection and alerting...

The way this is phrased, it reads more as though the integration (not CockroachDB) is self-hosted. I'm wondering if there is a way to mitigate some of these instances. It appears that there are just a handful of instances of The CockroachDB {{ site.data.products.core }} on each docs branch that could be misread this way. "The self-hosted integration", "The self-hosted Production Checklist".

Another thing is that we still have some occurrences of Self-Hosted because people (like me) forgot to use the product variable. We should find-replace those occurrences.

rmloveland commented 2 weeks ago

This is the change we discussed. Also as discussed, though, it may lead to some unintentional or awkward wordings, like here:

The CockroachDB self-hosted integration with Datadog enables data collection and alerting...

The way this is phrased, it reads more as though the integration (not CockroachDB) is self-hosted. I'm wondering if there is a way to mitigate some of these instances. It appears that there are just a handful of instances of The CockroachDB {{ site.data.products.core }} on each docs branch that could be misread this way. "The self-hosted integration", "The self-hosted Production Checklist".

Good point, I have gone through and tried to edit all of these instances so they read a bit more naturally as "The integration of your CRDB self-hosted cluster with Datadog"

Another thing is that we still have some occurrences of Self-Hosted because people (like me) forgot to use the product variable. We should find-replace those occurrences.

I have find-replaced them in all cases except where they occur in the YAML front matter of the page (where variable substitution does not work), in which case I have edited them to say "self-hosted" (lowercase) so they do not appear to be Product Names (tm)

NB. i have applied all of these changes across v23.1, v23.2, v24.1, v24.2, v24.3. All changes are on the commit with the message Update with taroface feedback (1)

PTAL!

rmloveland commented 2 weeks ago

@taroface applied all suggested changes, PTAL!