As discussed, I'm not suggesting to move the project outside of the tapestry build / release. I'm also not tied to the hivemind name.
I constantly find myself saying tapestry (the web framework) and tapestry-ioc on the user's list. A rename would help remove this ambiguity. On 21 Jul 2014 11:42, "Bob Harner" <bobhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think it's a good idea to resurrect old software product names, > because you bring with them all the old connotations. To the extent people > know about Hivemind, they think of the product as old, out of date & dead. > > Also, there were good reasons why Tapestry-IOC was not treated as a > distinct project. As our docs say: "The difficulty of managing the release > schedules of two complex frameworks proved to be an issue." > On Jul 21, 2014 3:22 AM, "Jochen Kemnade" <jochen.kemn...@eddyson.de> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Am 19.07.2014 10:02, schrieb Lance Java: > > > >> I think having tapestry-ioc and tapestry (the web framework) is a bit > >> confusing. I also feel that it hinders the promotion / adoption of > >> tapestry-ioc as a standalone product. > >> > > > > I see your point. I don't really have a strong opinion about that matter, > > but here we go. > > > > 1. Do you agree that tapestry-ioc should be renamed? > >> > > > > No. That's in terms of "should", not "could". I'm not against a rename, I > > just don't think it's necessary. > > > > 2. Do you think it should be called hivemind? > >> > > > > No. I also think that the name hivemind is taken and we shouldn't > > resurrect it. People would probably start to dig out old documentation > and > > mailing list threads. > > > > 3. Do you have an alternative name? > >> > > > > What about something with a relation to the word "tapestry"? Something > > like cotton, cloth, fabric (hm, I like that one, but there's at least > > http://www.fabfile.org/ and http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/fabric/). > > > > 4. Should a rename be done as part of 5.4 or 5.5? > >> > > > > I assume that's an XOR. ;-) I guess it depends on how thorough we want > the > > change to be. Do we also want to rename all the packages and classes with > > "IOC" in them? Then we'd probably even have to wait for 6.0. If it's just > > the name and the documentation, I think we could do it for 5.4. > > > > Jochen > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > > > >
