Re: ISSUE-67: Naming of "device"

api, ext, device, service

Are you inviting us for tequila too (in which case, I accept) Robin? ;)

- johnk

On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Robin Berjon wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I am loth to open a naming debate, so as agreed on the call yesterday let's make it swift. I initially planned on doing this on a Friday, but I won't be around tomorrow so today's the new Friday.
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> We've resolved to use the navigator.device.<module>.<method> form yesterday (for APIs where it makes sense, naturally). It's been suggested that "device" isn't such a great name, and alternatives have been proposed.
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> The following alternative (including keeping things as they are) have been proposed:
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>  device
>  service
>  api
>  ext
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> Since this is essentially a bike-shed decision, I've decided to use a variant of the Survivor decision process. The normal Survivor process is synchronous and therefore won't work well here. The variant is this: please vote with the list of options above ordered from the one you *hate most* (and therefore want to see voted off the island) to the one you hate least. The winner will be selected using a commonsensical ordering and tequila. Voting closes when I get to work Monday morning; since this is a vote (albeit informal) we don't need to know what the reasoning behind your preference is (though you may include it, if it's entertaining enough).
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> My vote: api, ext, device, service.
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> --
> Robin Berjon
>  robineko — hired gun, higher standards
>  http://robineko.com/
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Received on Thursday, 14 January 2010 14:04:03 UTC