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A standard to easily communicate to humans and machines the development/support and usability status of software repositories/projects.
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Rename "moved" status to "replaced", to make it more generic #26

Open waldyrious opened 6 years ago

waldyrious commented 6 years ago

As discussed in #19 (particularly from this comment onwards), switching from "moved" to "replaced" would support a wider variety of real-world statuses, without significant loss of clarity.

This change would allow the status to cover, for example:

jantman commented 6 years ago

I think this makes sense to me. I don't really have any projects that these new use cases cover, so I'll defer to consensus of interested parties on this. My own needs from RepoStatus are pretty simple, so at this point I'm mainly just managing PRs and community consensus.

Assuming we want to make this switch, I'll have to think about how to handle and communicate a rename of one of the statuses...

Alarm-Siren commented 1 year ago

I agree that "Replaced" is a better general-purpose name for the purposes as articulated by @waldyrious

In terms of managing the switch over, I would suggest just make Moved and Replaced the same thing semantically; Moved is deprecated and Replaced is recommended, but ultimately they mean the same thing. Its probably unrealistic to get everyone to "upgrade" to Replaced anyway, particularly for older repos that have been long since forgotten.

Relequestual commented 1 year ago

Coming here to note that I'd also value "replaced". In terms of making such an change having as least friction as possible, allowing both seems like a viable solution with the same semantics, and just let the end user choose which they prefer.

I'm happy to make a PR for this if that's helpful, although I probably won't see notifications for some time =]