word change requested for "to scrub"
Dave Peticolas
dave@krondo.com
09 Aug 2001 13:54:30 -0700
On 09 Aug 2001 15:33:30 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> On IRC, Bill Gribble just threw light on the meaning of the GnuCash
> operation "to scrub an account". I (and maybe others) thought of the
> following (wrong) meaning, which also made it into the explanatory file
> po/gnc-glossary.txt, "to delete an account". This is not correct.
> Instead, the proper definition is
>
> "scrub, to":
> in the gnucash context, "to repair unbalanced transactions and orphan
> splits in an account tree"
>
> i.e.
>
> <grib> "Scrub" looks for any transactions that have debits != credits,
> or any splits that do not have accounts
> <grib> it adds balancing splits to any unbalanced transactions (pointing
> to a special new account called "Unbalanced amounts" or something) and
> puts any splits without accounts into another special account
>
> However, since at least Ben and me were convinced of that other wrong
> semantics, it seems necessary to find a better name for that operation
> (as grib quickly suggested). Here's a list of proposals -- please,
> native English speakers, pick your favorite word and give some comments.
>
> - "to cleanup"
I think "Clean Up" would be best here.
dave