documentation/content/developer/glossary.rst
Antoine Vandevenne (anv) e3fee2cf46 [REF][MOV] documentation apocalypse
Prior to this commit, the Odoo documentation was mainly split between
two repositories: odoo/odoo/doc and odoo/documentation-user. Some bits
of documentation were also hosted elsewhere (e.g., wiki, upgrade, ...).
This was causing several problems among which:
  - The theme, config, Makefile, and similar technical resources had to
    be duplicated. This resulted in inconsistent layout, features, and
    build environments from one documentation to another.
  - Some pages did not fit either documentation as they were relevant
    for both users and developers. Some were relevant to neither of the
    two (e.g., DB management).
  - Cross-doc references had to be absolute links and they broke often.
  - Merging large image files in the developer documentation would bloat
    the odoo/odoo repository. Some contributions had to be lightened to
    avoid merging too many images (e.g., Odoo development tutorials).
  - Long-time contributors to the user documentation were chilly about
    going through the merging process of the developer documentation
    because of the runbot, mergebot, `odoo-dev` repository, etc.
  - Some contributors would look for the developer documentation in the
    `odoo/documentation-user` repository.
  - Community issues about the user documentation were submitted on the
    `odoo/odoo` repository and vice-versa.

Merging all documentations in one repository will allow us to have one
place, one theme, one work process, and one set of tools (build
environment, ...) for all of the Odoo docs.

As this is a good opportunity to revamp the layout of the documentation,
a brand new theme replaces the old one. It features a new way to
navigate the documentation, centered on the idea of always letting the
reader know what is the context (enclosing section, child pages, page
structure ...) of the page they are reading. The previous theme would
quickly confuse readers as they navigated the documentation and followed
cross-application links.

The chance is also taken to get rid of all the technical dangling parts,
performance issues, and left-overs. Except for some page-specific JS
scripts, the Odoo theme Sphinx extension is re-written from scratch
based on the latest Sphinx release to benefit from the improvements and
ease future contributions.

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Closes #945
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========
Glossary
========
.. glossary::
external id
external identifier
external identifiers
string identifier stored in ``ir.model.data``, can be used to refer
to a record regardless of its database identifier during data imports
or export/import roundtrips.
External identifiers are in the form :samp:`{module}.{id}` (e.g.
``account.invoice_graph``). From within a module, the
:samp:`{module}.` prefix can be left out.
Sometimes referred to as "xml id" or ``xml_id`` as XML-based
:ref:`reference/data` make extensive use of them.
format string
inspired by `jinja variables`_, format strings allow more easily
mixing literal content and computed content (expressions): content
between ``{{`` and ``}}`` is interpreted as an expression and
evaluated, other content is interpreted as literal strings and
displayed as-is
GIS
Geographic Information System
any computer system or subsystem to capture, store, manipulate,
analyze, manage or present spatial and geographical data.
minified
minification
process of removing extraneous/non-necessary sections of files
(comments, whitespace) and possibly recompiling them using equivalent
but shorter structures (`ternary operator`_ instead of ``if/else``) in
order to reduce network traffic
.. _jinja variables: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#variables
.. _ternary operator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F: