I've now changed bloodhound.apache.org and our issues.apache.org/bloodhoundlanding page to refer to Products instead of projects.
On 31 July 2013 01:42, Ryan Ollos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Joachim Dreimann < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On 17 June 2013 17:08, David Galligani <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 06/17/2013 06:02 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > >> Thanks, David. > > >> > > >> So Products is the same as Projects? > > >> > > > I can't say ... > > > I don't know what you mean for Project :) > > > But I think that's what you want . > > > > > > > Yes, we decided to call them Products some time back. They're the same > > thing currently as Projects were in Trac, with the major difference to > Trac > > being of course that you can have more than one (read: many) of them. > > > > "Product" better reflects how many organisations develop software: They > > sell it (or give it away) as products, or they use it internally as > > products to do jobs. They are reasonably permanent and many iterations, > > versions, milestones, and projects may improve a product over time. > > > > A project is something you do to achieve an aim, like create introduce a > > major change to a product or create a product in the first place. Or take > > on a project for a client if you're in a consultancy. By definition they > > are more transient. We may re-introduce projects in the future for those > > purposes. > > > > I hope that helps to explain some of the reasoning behind our decision. > You > > can change the label to project if you prefer in the TracIni file: > > https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/wiki/TracIni > > > > wiki.label = Wiki > > tickets.label = Tickets > > products.label = Products > > > > Cheers, > > Joe > > > The meaning of "Products" , and whether Projects are the same as Products > seems to be a frequently asked question. A user on IRC raised this question > again this evening, and made the very good point that the Bloodhound UI > uses the term "Products" and our Change Log on the front page of i.a.o > refers these things as "Products", however on that same page we have a > heading describing one of Bloodhound's key features: "Multiple Projects". > On apache.bloodhound.org we also talk about "Projects" rather than > "Products". The pages that describe "Multiple Projects" have been around > since the beginning of Bloodhound, but maybe we need to be more precise > with our own terminology since we seem to be confusing new users. > -- Joachim Dreimann | *User Experience Manager* WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data* e. [email protected] twitter @jdreimann <https://twitter.com/jdreimann>
