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Add a glossary entry for "replatforming"--when to use it and how it is different from other similar terms #296

Closed IngridT1 closed 1 year ago

IngridT1 commented 1 year ago

In Word Nerds Lauren Pritchett from opensource.com brought up the terminology "replatforming", because she was editing an article with this term.

The term is new and similar to "lift and shift", but seems to be becoming widely used in marketing to describe moving to OpenShift. We need to do some research and add the term to the Red Hat Supplementary Style Guide glossary, so that people are using it correctly, when (if?) it is appropriate.

@inoxx03 (with help from @mportman12) is going to work on this entry.

Srivaralakshmi commented 1 year ago

This has the potential for a PR. @IngridT1 As the issue creator, would you like to create the PR, or would you prefer someone from the @redhat-documentation/ccs-style-council to do it for you?

Srivaralakshmi commented 1 year ago

This has the potential for a PR. @IngridT1 As the issue creator, would you like to create the PR, or would you prefer someone from the @redhat-documentation/ccs-style-council to do it for you?

@IngridT1 Please respond.

mportman12 commented 1 year ago

@IngridT1 any updates on this?

bredamc commented 1 year ago

@inoxx03 If you can provide the text for the new glossary entry "replatforming", we can arrange for a member of the style council to create the PR?

mportman12 commented 1 year ago

@inoxx03 Do you have an update on this?

IngridT1 commented 1 year ago

@mportman12 I think I'm ultimately responsible for this PR. Apologies. Let me write something and see what I can do with my rusty Git skills.

IngridT1 commented 1 year ago

@mportman12 I'm looking up definitions for replatforming, and I'm beginning to think that this is not a term that we'll see in our content. Maybe it's more marketing-focused?

Sample definition:

Replatforming is a cloud migration strategy that involves modifying a legacy system to work optimally in the cloud without rewriting its core architecture.

From: https://www.cloudzero.com/blog/replatforming

I just did a search for the term on access.redhat.com and nothing came up.

Here's another article: https://bluexp.netapp.com/blog/cvo-blg-cloud-migration-approach-rehost-refactor-or-replatform#H_H2

Thoughts?

mportman12 commented 1 year ago

@IngridT1 If the term has never been used in product docs (or KB articles and solutions), then I agree we don't need to add it to the glossary at this time.

IngridT1 commented 1 year ago

Is it okay to close the issue?

mportman12 commented 1 year ago

I'll close it.