Rebrand legacy server product to "ownCloud Classic" across docs #5111

Goal

Consistently name the legacy ownCloud server product ownCloud Classic across all user-facing documentation in the owncloud and owncloud-docker organisations. The version (10, or soon 11) is applied only as additional information where relevant — e.g. "ownCloud Classic 10".

The new product, ownCloud Infinite Scale (oCIS), must never be renamed.

Canonical naming rule

Never touch: ownCloud Infinite Scale, Infinite Scale, oCIS, ocis; xref:/include:: targets; module slugs (classic_ui, oc10-app); URLs/paths; anchors/IDs; inline code/literals; and the generic "a server running ownCloud" instance sense (not a product-name use).

Scope

Documentation / user-facing text only (.adoc, .md, READMEs, release notes, website copy). Source code, identifiers, and xref targets are out of scope. Translation files (*.po/*.pot) are a separate downstream follow-up.

Process per repo

branch docs/rebrand-owncloud-classic → apply ruleset (space-containing patterns are inherently prose-only; they cannot match URLs/slugs which contain no spaces) → review oc10 shorthand by hand → verify (URL/xref targets byte-identical, oCIS count unchanged, docs build introduces no new errors) → signed commit → PR titled docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic".

Repositories

Tier A — docs repos

• docs-main — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" docs-main#187 (merged) — pilot / reference implementation
• docs-server — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" docs-server#1550
• docs-ocis — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" docs-ocis#1268
• docs-webui — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" docs-webui#222
• docs-client-android — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" docs-client-android#256
• docs-client-desktop — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" docs-client-desktop#749
• docs-client-ios-app — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" docs-client-ios-app#284
• docs (this repo) — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" #5112
• docs-ui — no occurrences (UI bundle, verified)

Tier B — code repos with embedded docs (docs files only)

Enumerated via clone-and-grep (changelogs excluded as frozen release history). PRs open:

• core — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" core#41651 (README prose)
• web — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" web#13902 (own docs/ + README; oc10 paths/identifiers kept)
• ios-app — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" ios-app#1562 (README, KNOWN_ISSUES, Account Setup bookmark)
• client — docs: update README to reference ownCloud Infinite Scale client#12573 (README → ownCloud Infinite Scale; client dropped oc10/Classic support in 7.0, so it references oCIS, not Classic — per maintainer review)
• android — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" android#4900 (README + Play Store descriptions; instance-sense kept)
• ocis — docs: normalize legacy server product name to 'ownCloud Classic' ocis#12458 (full sweep of docs/ocis/; oc10 codename/identifiers kept)

No actionable doc-prose hits (verified, no PR needed): smaller app repos not listed above.

owncloud-docker org

• server — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" owncloud-docker/server#647 (CONTRIBUTING.md, agents.md)
• helm-charts — docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" owncloud-docker/helm-charts#109 (Chart.yaml + generated chart README)

Zero actionable hits (verified, no PR): base, ocis, php, web, ubuntu, trivy-presets, appliance, openshift, compose-playground.

Phase 4 — drift-prevention attribute

• Introduce canonical product-name attributes in global-attributes.yml (loaded at build time) so future drift is prevented — docs: add product-name attributes to prevent naming drift #5113.

Added: oc-classic-name (ownCloud Classic), oc-ocis-name (ownCloud Infinite Scale), oc-ocis-name-short (oCIS). Verified with a full antora site.yml build (exit 0, no new errors). Substituting these attributes into the existing .adoc occurrences is a separate, later stage and intentionally out of scope here — the attributes are inert until referenced.

Backports to maintained version branches

Re-derived per branch (content drift made cherry-pick infeasible); same ruleset, verified per branch (targets byte-identical, oCIS unchanged, build error-set unchanged where buildable).

• docs-server: 10.16 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (10.16) docs-server#1551 · 10.15 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (10.15) docs-server#1552
• docs-ocis: 7.2 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (7.2) docs-ocis#1269 · 7.3 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (7.3) docs-ocis#1270 · 8.0 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (8.0) docs-ocis#1271
• docs-client-android: 4.5 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (4.5) docs-client-android#257 · 4.6 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (4.6) docs-client-android#258 · 4.7 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (4.7) docs-client-android#259 · 4.8 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (4.8) docs-client-android#260
• docs-client-desktop: 5.3 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (5.3) docs-client-desktop#750 · 6.0 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (6.0) docs-client-desktop#751 · 7.1 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (7.1) docs-client-desktop#752
• docs-client-ios-app: 12.5 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (12.5) docs-client-ios-app#285 · 12.6 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (12.6) docs-client-ios-app#286 · 12.7 docs: normalize legacy server product name to "ownCloud Classic" (12.7) docs-client-ios-app#287

docs-main, docs-webui, docs (aggregate) publish from a single branch — no backport needed. Archived x_archived_* branches are intentionally left untouched.