Good point! catalog-migrator sounds good to me.

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM Yufei Gu <flyrain...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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