> On 3. Oct 2017, at 12:11, Carsten Ziegeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now the more interesting part is ... naming :) > > While the downloads page states "Sling Application" we always refer to > it as "launchpad". Even the downloaded artifact has "launchpad" in it. > Now "launchpad" has no meaning to someone new to Sling and further more > its a technical term describing how we launch Sling. So I think we > should not use this for our Sling downloads. > > "Sling Application" is far better but might not be the best description > either. I thought about "Sling Demo Application" but that's not quiet > right either. It's definitely not a distribution as we don't intend that > people use this in production.
I tend to disagree here. It is exactly a distribution (although not for production purposes, compare with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_distribution). Therefore I would prefer something like "Sling Reference Distribution". We should make clear in the name that this is easy to run and contains several components already preconfigured. > > So I think we should come up with a good (short) name for this thing and > then use it throughout our documentation and in the artifact id. And > forget about using the term launchpad. (As soon as we move to the new > feature model we don't use launchpad technology anymore anyway). > > We should also improve our docs on building a real application with > Sling. But that's a different topic and I plan to work on this in > November to improve the docs around that. > > WDYT? > > Regards > Carsten > > [1] > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/whiteboard/cziegeler/demo.startup/ > -- > Carsten Ziegeler > Adobe Research Switzerland > [email protected]
