Hi Oliver, 2014-11-05 15:34 GMT+01:00 Oliver Lietz <apa...@oliverlietz.de>:
> On Wednesday 05 November 2014 08:45:36 Tommaso Teofili wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hi Tommaso, > > > While reviewing Sling Replication on its road to the first release me and > > Marius, with the help of some colleagues at Adobe, have cleaned up the > APIs > > [1] and the documentation / javadoc significantly but also found out that > > probably 'replication' is not the best name we could find. > > > > In first place it was called Sling Replication because it originated as a > > new effort to address AEM publishing tasks that we used to call > > "replication" at Adobe, however we think this is not the proper name > > because the replication term [2] mostly refers to being able to create > and > > maintain multiple copies of the same thing for resiliency, failover, etc. > > (see examples of 'replication' in other ASF projects [3][4][5][6][7]) > while > > our Sling module's main features deal with: > > - copying resources from Sling instanceA to Sling instanceB by pulling or > > pushing > > - synchronizing resources under certain paths (keeping them the same) > among > > Sling instances > > > > We internally discussed the following name alternatives: > > - Sling content synchronization module > > - Sling content mirroring module > > - Sling content distribution module > > > > and the first two seemed to us a bit too much related to bidirectional > full > > instance sync while the latter seems to fit nicely with the module > > capabilities, therefore I'd propose to change "Sling replication module" > > name into "Sling content distribution module". > > > > What do you think? > > isn't it also configuration distribution (so not only "content") or with > other > words resource distribution in general (sorry, I'm not yet into this > stuff)? > So maybe just Sling Distribution? > I think saying "what" we intend to distribute would be good; I also considered proposing 'resources' instead of 'content' but what I was concerned of was the eventual misunderstanding of "resource distribution" as a pretty overridden term, both in computer science and in other fields (human rights, trade, etc.). Regards, Tommaso > > O. > > > Looking forward to your opinions, > > Regards, > > Tommaso > > > > [1] : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-4106 > > [2] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_(computing) > > [3] : > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/cluster-howto.html#Overview > > [4] : http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#replication > > [5] : http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#cluster_replication > > [6] : http://shaierera.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-replicator.html > > [7] : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Index+Replication >
