On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:12:25 +0100, Stefan Bodewig
wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've been responsible for too many bad naming choices to try to come up
> with something new here. I've collected the names that I recall being
> proposed, but I may have missed some and the choices may not be good
> anyway.
On 2009-12-18, Kevin Jackson wrote:
>> I understand that (2) is very dependent on (1).
>> (1) What do we want to call the new element that behaves quite a bit
>> like a target but has a dependency list that can be extended?
> - moving-target (very familiar for people working in IT)
combined
I have to say, I think "goal" is semantically reasonable--that said I
would want to use it. Let's just say I'd like to emphasize the
dissimiliarities between Ant and Maven. ;) "phase" is not terrible,
but seems to imply that a buildfile represents a single "story" which
is not always the
Stefan Bodewig wrote:
Hi all
I've been responsible for too many bad naming choices to try to come up
with something new here. I've collected the names that I recall being
proposed, but I may have missed some and the choices may not be good
anyway.
I understand that (2) is very dependent on (1)
> I understand that (2) is very dependent on (1).
>
> (1) What do we want to call the new element that behaves quite a bit
> like a target but has a dependency list that can be extended?
- moving-target (very familiar for people working in IT)
or
- mutable-target ?
>
> (a) target-group
>
>
When I first seriously thought about volunteering as 1.8.0 release
manager it was late this summer and I thought I'd write a mail like this
in September. Life interfered and there've been way more changes in
trunk than I initially thought, so now its almost christmas.
What I'd like to propose is
Hi all
I've been responsible for too many bad naming choices to try to come up
with something new here. I've collected the names that I recall being
proposed, but I may have missed some and the choices may not be good
anyway.
I understand that (2) is very dependent on (1).
(1) What do we want t
