I support changing both the name of the Accumulo master service and the master branch name. Should we start a vote? Maybe we need to understand the full scope of what will be required before we can do that. Billie, do you want to start the ticket you mentioned?
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 3:18 PM Owens, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like GitHub is considering changing 'master' to 'main'. That could > also be a possibility. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Billie Rinaldi <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 3:07 PM > To: Accumulo Dev List <[email protected]> > Subject: [DISCUSS] Rename Accumulo master > > Hi Accumulo folks! I would like to start a discussion about renaming the > Accumulo master. Previous discussions were held a few years ago [1]. Some > things have changed since we started that discussion, in the world and in > our project governance, so I think it is worth revisiting this topic. > > If people agree that a rename would be worthwhile, we can start > identifying the many changes that would need to be made (probably a GitHub > issue would be a good place for that). This will be a big change and I am > happy to help work on it. If anyone else is interested in helping out too, > I think we should be able to break the work down into several discrete > tasks. > > I believe the best replacement names we came up with on the original > ticket were Coordinator and Conductor. I also wanted to suggest another > possibility that I don't think we considered: Admin / AdminServer. Admin is > generic, but at least it's short. Feel free to share your thoughts and > other ideas, if you have them. > > Billie > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2844 >
