text not very clear in the apidoc

Bug #161737 reported by Christophe Combelles
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Zope 3
Fix Released
Undecided
Philipp von Weitershausen

Bug Description

While reviewing the translation of zope3, I found some string in the apidoc which is not very clear, and can lead to potentially dangerous translations (ie which can be false or mistaken). I think having water-clear text in the apidoc is important, since the concepts are not obvious for beginners.

In zope/app/apidoc/ifacemodule/index.pt:
One can read: "Adapters where this interface is required:"
It seems that

The real meaning is:
"Registered adapters available for objects implementing this interface"
So the interface is not really required by the adapter itself, but required to be implemented by the object the adapter adapts.

So to be short, the string should be:

"List of adapters registered for this interface".

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Philipp von Weitershausen (philikon) wrote :

I'll take this one. Note that "Adapters registered for this interface" is a bit ambiguous (which is probably why the weird original wording was chosen). I suggest to use "Adapters for objects providing this interface" instead.

Changed in zope3:
assignee: nobody → philipp-weitershausen
status: New → Confirmed
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Philipp von Weitershausen (philikon) wrote :

THis has been fixed in zope.app.apidoc 3.4.3.

Changed in zope3:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Stephan Richter (srichter) wrote :

The wording sounds good. I am glad that finally someone looked into this.

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