Hi Jesse

If I understand You correctly, there is a misunderstanding here. Let me attempt 
to explain:

The name chronos is NOT in any way associated to any organization or product - 
a few companies of that name do exist, but chronos is not related to any of 
these in any way.
The name was originally inspired by greek mythology, the 'personification of 
time' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronos and is not in any way linked to the 
original sponsors of the code.

The original sponsor is a Danish governmental organization paying for most of 
the work prior to the donation to Codehaus in 2008. They have not ben related 
to any work performed since that. 

The prefix chronos now exists to show the relationship between the testing and 
the reporting parts, in the same way as for the surefire plugin.
The 2 plugins share information in an internal xml format (as does the surefire 
plugin), which is not in any way linked to jmeter, thus the reporting part is 
completely jmeter independent.

The name chronos-jmeter-maven-plugin was chosen for the testing part, since it 
is in fact jmeter-specific.
I believe a name like, say chronos-test-maven-plugin should be reserved for a 
(hypothetical) future plugin which might automatically chose between jmeter and 
grinder (and possibly other tools).

In the future there might be

chronos-report-maven-plugin: for creating reports
chronos-jmeter-maven-plugin: for testing with jmeter
chronos-grinder-maven-plugin: for testing with grinder
chronos-test-maven-plugin: for automatically choosing between jmeter and 
grinder (or others)
and in principle other plugins for testing with commercial 
performancetesttools, all communicating in the same internal xml format with 
the reporting part.

I honestly think the naming is quite good.

Does this answer Your concern?

/Kent


Den 25/10/2011 kl. 16.37 skrev Jesse Farinacci:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Kent Sølvsten <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The Chronos plugin was donated to the sandbox 3 years ago. After having been 
>> dormant for a period, development is now resumed and the plugin have been 
>> fairly active for the last 6 months.
> 
> -0
> 
> I would renew my hesitation with the 'chronos' prefix for the goals. I
> really don't understand how that relates to JMeter. As a benefactor of
> open source software, I am appreciative to the individuals and
> companies that support OSS. However, I don't understand why the plugin
> should use the 'chronos' prefix, will we be getting 'sonatype'
> prefix'd mojos too? 'cloudbees'?
> 
> -Jesse
> 
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