By kae on

Here is a sample glossary page. Where would be a good place to put this? This is related to the thread I started about documenting comments. Please see
http://drupal.org/node/43452. While these terms are not frequently asked questions, they do cause confusion for the newcomer.

Here are some terms and acronyms that are not Drupal terms that are used on this site that a newcomer might not know.

GLOSSARY

IDE
Intergrated Development Environment. Used here in relationship to debuggers.

IMHO
in my humble opinion

IMO
in my opinion

IRC
Internet Relay Chat. A type of software that allows people like our developers to chat in real time over the internet.

RTFM
Read The Freaking Manual (sometimes a less polite time is used in place of "Freaking")

Comments

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kae commented

FOO
replace with genericexample

FOOBAR
replace with genericexample

HOOK
a function written in php to connect a module with Drupal core (described in Drupal file module.inc)

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GWL commented

CVS
Concurrent Versioning System. A system that tracks all changes made to Drupal and its modules, allowing multiple developers to work on a single project, regardless of the geographic distribution of those developers. Projects in the CVS repository are not considered stable, and caution should be used when installing them on a live site.

HEAD
The current development version of Drupal. It is not meant for use by regular users and should be downloaded and used only by developers or those wishing to help find bugs in the software.
(Thanks to Steve Dondley for this newbie-centered explanation.)

AFAIK
as far as I know

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kae commented

gwl,
thank you. the first 2 certainly cause a lot of grief! and now I'll know what afaik means.
ae2005

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Wolfflow commented

FYI: after a bit of Time your request is being accepted (almost from many Doc Team Members) so if you will need to look after some of the Acronyms and Expressions commonly used on Drupal.org you may consult our Common English expression & acronyms used on Drupal.org or Terminology Handbook pages.

Thank You for your support, I have added the term you mentioned above.

Cheers - Wolfflow
If you look at word and nouns you do not clearly understand take a look at Common Terminology.

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