On 19/06/17 07:32 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote: >> as an aside, in telemetry project, we did something somewhat similar >> when we renamed/rebranded to telemetry from ceilometer. we wrote several >> notes to the ML, had a few blog posts, fixed the docs, mentioned the new >> project structure in our presentations... 2 years on, we still >> occasionally get asked "what's ceilometer", "is xyz not ceilometer?", or >> "so ceilometer is deprecated?". to a certain extent i think we'll have >> to be prepared to do some hand holding and say "hey, that's not what the >> "big tent/<new label>." > > Is it clear to these people, once you explain the difference, what > telemetry is? > > I would assume it is and this is one of the problems we're trying to > solve. Even > after explaining the difference, it's sometimes hard for people to grasp > the > concept because the naming that was used is poor and, to be honest, it > feels > like it came out from an analogy without properly considering the impact it > would have in the community. > > Over-communicating won't get rid of surprises but sometimes the problem > is in > the message and not the receivers of it. We must stay honest with > ourselves.
i think once we send them to the doc page and correct them, they get it. i imagine a/the problem is because people are going to read a lot of historical unofficial/official stuff while they google. so while we fixed all the docs we could, there are still many more other sources (blogs, forks, etc...) that still reference the project from prior years. i would think this is an issue you'll get as well. people will stumble across the many 'big-tent' articles from 2 years ago and that becomes their knowledge until they're corrected. i'm not a branding specialist so i'm not sure how to correct this but it does seem like just renaming will not necessarily fix the issue (based on our experience). -- gord __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev