Berin Loritsch wrote:
Drop the "uber"Ok. So the migration path would be:Milestone 1: ECM replacement (Codename: Fortress) Milestone 2: Proper Meta Model (Codename: Merlin) Milestone 3: Pluggable container (Codename: ?Uber Container?) Note that we might want smaller milestones between Merlin and Uber....
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I want the "uber container" term dropped from the planet. The "uber" part in "uber container" to many, many people is a direct reference to the "uber" in "ubermensch", which is a racist concept created by Hitler and the nazis. Being reminded is hurtful to many people, not to mention the very ugly association implicitly created between Avalon and WOII.
As an example of how strong the feelings are on this, if I were to have uttered "uber container" in my late grandmother's house, I would pretty much have been banned for life from her house and scrapped from her will. As another example, guys at work have described avalon as "sick bastards" (in jest, but nevertheless...).
I already proposed a different codename somewhere, I believe I called it Spearhead.
Working title
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Besides codenames, we need a working title for the project. I resent "Avalon Container", as there's more avalon containers than just this effort (for example EOB). I suggest a working title of
*Avalon ESCA*, the Avalon Extensible Scalable Container Architecture
Roadmap
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Avalon will be focussing container development into two efforts. The first one is the creation of Avalon ESCA. To this end, most existing avalon container projects will refocus to be part of that goal.
The roadmap for this effort is roughly as follows:
Milestone 1: ECM replacement (Codename: Fortress)
Milestone 2: Proper Meta Model (Codename: Merlin3)
Milestone 3: Phoenix Compatible (Codename: Phoenix5)
Milestone 4: Profileable, pluggable container (Codename: Spearhead)
The second container development effort is the maintainance of existing released efforts with an existing userbase, ie phoenix. This will merge into the ESCA effort when there is an ESCA release compatible with those existing efforts.
graphically:
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ECM --> Fortress --> Merlin3 --> Phoenix5 --> Spearhead --> ...
^ ^ ^
| : |
Merlin1&2 (unreleased)-| : |
All other | :(synergy) |
container dev code -/ : |
: |
Phoenix4 -------------------------------/
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cheers,
- Leo
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