NO Not feeling strongly, actually. In general, I'm not sure if the renaming itself will have a positive or negative effect (pretty much along the lines of Marcelo's mail). Add to that the overhead and confusion that comes with any renaming, I end up with a net-negative.
I explicitly don't want to make the call myself if "blackbox" has negative connotations. From what I know and feel, it doesn't. More on the contrary. But I think that call has to be made by those who would be affected if there were negative connotations. More generally, I think it is a good idea to avoid metaphors in technical terms where possible, as attractive as they often appear. It's the nature of metaphors that they can be understood in various ways, and some of those might be unintended, distracting, or even insulting. That's why I think the move from "master/slave" to "primary/secondary" (or similar) is a great idea. However, "blackbox" is as much a metaphor as "prober". On 20.01.22 15:41, Julien Pivotto wrote: > Dear Prometheans, > > As per our governance, I'd like to cast a vote to rename the Blackbox > Exporter to Prober. > This vote is based on the following thread: > https://groups.google.com/g/prometheus-developers/c/advMjgmJ1E4/m/A0abCsUrBgAJ > > Any Prometheus team member is eligible to vote, and votes for the > community are welcome too, but do not formally count in the result. > > Here is the content of the vote: > > > We want to rename Blackbox Exporter to Prober. > > I explicitly leave out the "how" out of this vote. If this vote passes, > a specific issue will be created in the blackbox exporter repository > explaining how I plan to work and communicate on this change. I will > make sure that enough time passes so that as many people as possible can > give their input on the "how". > > The vote is open until February 3rd. If the vote comes positive before > next week's dev summit, the "how" can also be discussed during the dev > summit, and I would use that discussion as input for the previously > mentioned github issue. > > -- > Julien Pivotto > @roidelapluie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/20220120144119.GA522055%40hydrogen. -- Björn Rabenstein [PGP-ID] 0x851C3DA17D748D03 [email] [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/YfAmVFJfmSB%2Bn3HV%40mail.rabenste.in.
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