Hi James et al. I agree, that the name GORM is somewhat outdated, especially now that there is a long parallel running Go GORM that "spams" our namespace. Grails Data is fine with me
+1 Den søn. 24. aug. 2025 kl. 16.00 skrev James Daugherty <[email protected]>: > Hi Everyone, > > In the recent weekly meeting, we discussed how we have repackaged GORM > related projects to be prefixed with 'grails-data-' coordinates, but > we have not made an effort to continue renaming GORM everywhere else. > > This thread is to discuss people's thoughts on removing references to > GORM completely & only referring to Grails Persistence Libraries as > "Grails Data" going forward. > > My thoughts: > 1. We renamed it because GORM does not match implementations - not all > implementations are true ORMs anymore. > 2. We have a trademark on Grails and do not have one on GORM. This > would allow us to enforce our brand. > 3. Go has become significantly more popular and there's a conflicting > project using 'GORM': https://github.com/go-gorm/gorm This project > has existed since 2013, and due to previous names being not enforced, > I don't think it's feasible to change at this point. > > I'm personally a +1 to only using Grails Data going forward and > dropping the GORM name. > > -James > -- Best regards Søren Berg Glasius Apache Groovy PMC and Apache Grails PPMC --- Press ESC once to quit - twice to save the changes.
