On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 16:11 +0100, Ian Boston wrote:
> Hi,
> In the spirit of keeping it simple.
> 
> Why not "Configuration" ?
> 
> OSGi Configuration is nearly always referred to as  "OSGi
> Configuration" by
> those that use Sling/AEM. I think it's only referred to as
> Configuration by
> those whose context is nearly always OSGi, ie OSGI developers. Most
> deployers don't see Sling/AEM as an OSGi container, they see it as
> Sling/AEM. Could be wrong about that.

That would work for me.

Robert

> 
> Best Regards
> Ian
> 
> On 26 July 2016 at 16:04, Robert Munteanu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 16:46 +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Carsten Ziegeler <cziegeler@apac
> > > he.o
> > > rg> wrote:
> > > > ...it's neither Preferences nor
> > > > Configuration :) Configurences maybe (just a joke) ...
> > > 
> > > I was thinking about Prefiguration...that's unusual but actually
> > > expresses the mix between both concepts, and it's a unique name
> > > in
> > > the
> > > Sling space.
> > 
> > Prefigure means something else though
> > 
> >   an early indication or version of (something)
> > 
> > So that might be a not-so-welcome association. I also think it's
> > not a
> > very google-able word.
> > 
> > Having thought about this a little I believe configuration pretty
> > much
> > reflects what the new module does, even though it's not a perfect
> > fit.
> > It's mentioned in the Jira issue several times, we have classes
> > with
> > that name and also the wcm.io terminology page [1] talks about
> > 'Configuration' in many places.
> > 
> > The only downside that I'm aware of is that there might be some
> > confusion regarding the relation between this module and OSGi
> > configs.
> > But sadly there's (IMO) just one word which captures this properly.
> > 
> > Maybe we could go with Context-Aware Configuration? This outlines
> > what
> > the module brings on top of 'plain' OSGi configurations.
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> > [1]: http://wcm.io/config/api/terminology.html
> > 

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