I'm not sure if we want to limit it to Iceberg only as Polaris starts to
support generic tables. I guess "catalog-migrator" is short and expressive.
"polaris-catalog-migrator" is also fine to me, given that the package name
already implies its association with Polaris.

Yufei


On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM Eric Maynard <eric.w.mayn...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> iceberg-catalog-migrator sounds good to me!
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM Ajantha Bhat <ajanthab...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > The Nessie migrator was `iceberg-catalog-migrator`, and "catalogs" does
> > > not seem grammatical to me. If I'm grading papers, I'm not a papers
> > grader,
> > > I'm a paper grader.
> >
> >
> > The original name, *iceberg-catalog-migrator*, suggests that it supports
> > migrations between any Iceberg catalogs. Since we are placing it under
> > Apache Polaris, we wanted to incorporate "Polaris" into the name.
> However,
> > naming it *polaris-catalog-migrator* might imply that it is exclusively
> for
> > migrating tables to or from the Polaris catalog.
> >
> > We need a better name or should consider keeping just
> > *apache/iceberg-catalog-migrator*
> > Package names in the source can be `org.apache.polaris.catalog.migrator`
> >
> > Suggestions are welcome!
> >
> > - Ajantha
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM Dmitri Bourlatchkov
> > <dmitri.bourlatch...@dremio.com.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > > Good point re: grammar, and I'll defer to native speakers on that :)
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM Eric Maynard <eric.w.mayn...@gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > The Nessie migrator was `iceberg-catalog-migrator`, and "catalogs"
> does
> > > > not seem grammatical to me. If I'm grading papers, I'm not a papers
> > > grader,
> > > > I'm a paper grader.
> > > >
> > > > The fact that it works with different catalog implementations doesn't
> > > > change that, but if we think polaris-catalog-migrator sounds too must
> > > like
> > > > it only can migrate to/from Polaris catalogs I bet we can come up
> with
> > a
> > > > better name indeed.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM Dmitri Bourlatchkov
> > > > <dmitri.bourlatch...@dremio.com.invalid> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > Small question, why catalog*s*?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > The tool can migrate any Iceberg catalog to any other Iceberg
> > catalog.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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