Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - final patch

On 9/15/19 7:54 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> As far as I can tell "installation media" is the most commonly used term
>> (Eg: RedHat, SUSE, Microsoft, Apple).  While it might not be the ideal
>> term, it's worth mentioning that idiosyncratic documentation may also
>> have a "risk" of this kind.  My vote is for "installation media" because
>> I've never seen any of the proposed alternatives in print.  It
>> definitely needs "installation" for precision, because there are many
>> types of media, and "media" is a generic and neutral term.
> 
> That's a good argument IMHO, not mentioned before.
> 
> And given that most people were fine with this term in the first run
> (except of Ben), and there is no perfect choice in this case anyway,
> I will move back to "installation media" and to Justins review from
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2019/09/msg00082.html

But "media" is a plural word, it should be "medium". It's a Latin word.

Adrian