General Language Improvements

[faboweb]

The validators on the my stake page are not unstaked, they are currently unstaking.

[jbibla]

i think we're going with unbonded @fedekunze @rigelrozanski is that correct?

so maybe a good title would be Currently Undbonding - these should likely also show the dates 📅

[rigelrozanski]

Validators tokens' can be bonded, unbonding, or unbonded

Delegators tokens can be delegated or undelegated in ADDITION to being bonded, unbonding, or unbonded

[jbibla]

@rigelrozanski should we avoid calling this the Staking section or the My Stake tab?

[rigelrozanski]

IMO I would remove all reference to the word "stake" in the UI - I find it confusing - alternatively (IMO less desirable) we could remove absolutely all reference to the word bond and replace it with stake (aka we would now use staked, unstaking, or unstaked) - I don't think we should do the latter

[rigelrozanski]

side thought - I wonder if we should rename the staking module (which is the only use of the word stake in the sdk) to bondage - it's kinda confusing because the module deals with both bonding and delegations - not sure... maybe this should still be the one use case for the word staking; the system of bonding and delegating

[faboweb]

I wonder if we should rename the staking module to bondage

Let's not go there. This will be weird for developers. And we don't want to be seen as weird, we want to show trust in our code and in our platform.

[NodeGuy]

We agreed in the meeting to change the header to Undelegating Validators in staking1.

[rigelrozanski]

@NodeGuy (CC @faboweb @jbibla )

The language just suggested is inconsistent with how staking works (and is oxymoronic in the context of how we use the terms). - please refer to some of the original language discussions - #1283 (comment)

The validator object does not itself delegate (however the operator of the validator does have a self-delegation) - there are a number of different situations which will cause the validator's tokens to move from the bonded state to an unbonding state - the most correct term to use to describe what you are getting at is unbonding validator

[faboweb]

We want to avoid the use of the word bonding to not confuse users. Anyway undelegating validator is temporary and will be replaced by undelgation transactions.

[jbibla]

takeaways from the call with @faboweb and @rigelrozanski :

General

• not going to use Bonding, Bonded, Unbonding (the B words) to communicate token state. instead we will imply this with the action words - Delegation and associated terms

TmBalance

• change "Unbonded" to "Available"

LiValidator and PageValidator

• display three status' / states (Active, Jailed, Inactive)

My Delegations Tab

• “Bonded Steak” filter is technically innaccurate - replace with "Delegated Steak"
• display two lists: "Active Delegations" and "Inactive Delegations"

[rigelrozanski]

Thanks for the writeup @jbibla - p.s. we should probably update to use stake as per the new plan with Game of Stakes

[jbibla]

thank you for the time and ideas!

this is being tracked separately #1378.

[NodeGuy]

Thank you, @jbibla. Would you please put that somewhere that's easy to find, like a Google Doc? I imagine we're going to need to reference it frequently in the future.

[faboweb]

Great idea

[rigelrozanski]

May I suggest a docs section in the voyager repo to house the most updated language decisions/discussions? - we use a docs/ folder in the sdk and it's fantastic, things never get lost hehe