Hi Aljoscha, sounds good to me. Let’s also make sure we don’t refer to the JobMaster as Jobmanager anywhere then (code, config).
I am not sure we can avoid mentioning the Flink ResourceManagers in user facing docs completely. For JobMaster and Dispatcher this seems doable. Best, Konstantin On Mon 15. Jun 2020 at 12:56, Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > This came to my mind because of the master/slave discussion in [1] and > the larger discussions about inequality/civil rights happening right now > in the world. I think for this reason alone we should use a name that > does not include "master". > > We could rename it back to JobManager, which was the name mostly used > before 2019. Since the beginning of Flink, TaskManager was the term used > for the worker component/node and JobManager was the term used for the > orchestrating component/node. > > Currently our glossary [2] defines these terms (paraphrased by me): > > - "Flink Master": it's the orchestrating component that consists of > resource manager, dispatcher, and JobManager > > - JobManager: it's the thing that manages a single job and runs as > part of a "Flink Master" > > - TaskManager: it's the worker process > > Prior to the introduction of the glossary the definition of JobManager > would have been: > > - It's the orchestrating component that manages execution of jobs and > schedules work on TaskManagers. > > Quite some parts in the code and documentation/configuration options > still use that older meaning of JobManager. Newer parts of the > documentation use "Flink Master" instead. > > I'm proposing to go back to calling the orchestrating component > JobManager, which would mean that we have to touch up the documentation > to remove mentions of "Flink Master". I'm also proposing not to mention > the internal components such as resource manager and dispatcher in the > glossary because there are transparent to users. > > I'm proposing to go back to JobManager instead of an alternative name > also because switching to yet another name would mean many more changes > to code/documentation/peoples minds. > > What do you all think? > > Best, > Aljoscha > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-18209 > [2] > > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/concepts/glossary.html > -- Konstantin Knauf https://twitter.com/snntrable https://github.com/knaufk
