On Dec 28, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Ryan McKinley wrote: >>> >>>> Do you think it is worth a name change? This is about to get baked into >>>> Solr and I would really prefer we choose names that the rest of the world >>>> seems to understand. >>> >>> If it hasn't been baked in yet, then +1. I do agree that it's important to >>> use names that are already present in the hivemind rather than invent new >>> ones. Been there, done that, got sick of having to explain myself, went >>> back >>> to popular names... >>> >> >> It's semi-baked into Lucene already and people familiar w/ LocalLucene and >> LocalSolr. >> > > Although it is 'semi-baked', the spatial contrib in 2.9 is clearly marked > experimental and subject to change. Also, the tier stuff in 2.9 does not > have enough substance to stand on its own -- any change will break APIs. > > If folks think "tile" (or "grid") make more sense, now is an easy time to > change. > > In my book it seems better to use the most common terms, but I can also see > the advantage to knowing that if people are talking about "cartesian tiers" > then they are referring to lucene. (That can also be useful to distinguish > spatial lucene/solr from "LocalLucene/Solr") > > I'm +1 for "Tile"
Ditto. I'm +1 on tiles.
