[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Vote: renaming the Roster default tool title to "Site Members"

[Clay Fenlason]

My understanding has always been (and the vote participation thus far
confirms) that this is an i18n issue. So +1 for me.

That said, "Roster" has a fairly unambiguous and non-technical value
(which "Site Members" does not) in US (North American?) contexts, and
given the overlap with the member list in the Site Info tool, the
label change proposed would be confusing and unwelcome. I'd lobby for
the release notes to include clear language about how to not stumble
into this unwittingly, and alter the tool title as needed, if and when
this change is next announced in release notes.

~Clay

PS Ideally the functional duplication in Site Info could be collapsed
into a single solution. But I think that's more work than anyone is
ready to take on.

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque
<jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr> wrote:
> +1 from UPMC
>
> Please do it in trunk and do not ask for a merge in maintenance
> branches. Some localizations may need an update and this doesn't happen
> with maintenance branches, AFAICT.
>
> J-F
>
> Daniel Robinson a écrit :
>> Dear Sakai users and developers,
>>
>> An outstanding issue for the Roster tool has been to rename the
>> default tool title to something less ambiguous.
>>
>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-10232
>>
>> We propose changing the default Roster tool title to "Site Members",
>> as is already used for the en_GB localization. "Site Members" has been
>> the most popular choice from the (admittedly small) feedback we have
>> received so far. However, institutions will still be free to rename
>> the Roster tool locally to suit their needs.
>>
>> We would now like to open a vote for this change.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Daniel Robinson
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