makes sense to me On Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 5:14 PM Samuel Hjelmfelt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone, > > If there are no objections, I would like to rename NiFi-Fn to Stateless > NiFi. This is more intuitive for the uninitiated and makes it easier to > differentiate the FaaS use cases from other use cases (e.g. long-running > stateless flows). > > > > Originally, it was called MagNiFi to draw the comparison to MiNiFi, but > the name had to be changed due to a trademark. NiFi-Fn was a reasonable fit > given opportunity for FaaS, but it has been leading to confusion given that > there are other places that we could use it. Long running processes in > particular do not feel like functions (even if they technically are). > > > From a code perspective, I would just change the directory to > "nifi-stateless" and class names from "FnProcessSession" to > "StatelessProcessSession" for example. > > > -Sam
