Before going though the pain of a rename, I would suggest checking with trademarks@ to make sure the name “Apache Consensus” is suitable (i.e. a PODLINGNAMESEARCH JIRA would be approved).
You don’t want to rename, only to have to rename again. -Taylor > On Feb 22, 2017, at 10:31 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am sure the infra team with love this idea :): > > Thinking about the direction of Gossip. This is currently the message on > our front page: > > Apache Gossip > > Apache Gossip™ is a system to form peer-to-peer networks using the gossip > protocol. > > > Thinking about the bigger picture... We are looking to add SWIM, we are > looking to add CRDT. In the future we might have some type of leader > election, or multicast based cluster membership. > > I am borrowing a notion that Gary brought up in the early days of the > proposal with the term "toolkit". Here is my new idea: > > Apache Consensus > > Apache Consensus is a distributed services toolkit that includes clustering > technology like peer-to-peer membership services like gossip and data > primitives like distributed CRDT data types.... bla bla. > > What does everyone think? This is no immediate need here, but I think the > re-brand is more inline with there we are headed and more interesting to > attract development. Comments and other suggestions are welcome.
