+1 for BookKeeper :) HDFS has a contrib module named BKJM (BookKeeperJournalManager), I think bunch of people already familiar with BK acronym.
-Rakesh On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Flavio Junqueira <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for BookKeeper. I like it because it makes clear where the acronym BK > comes from, and it creates a link to ZooKeeper, a system we rely on. It is > actually not uncommon that project names violate capitalization or grammar > rules in general, so it really doesn't bother me. Not to mention that we > have been used it this way for quite a long time. > > -Flavio > > > On Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:01 AM, Ivan Kelly <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > Now that we are going top level, we have a chance to fix something > that has been bugging me since I started working on the project; the > superfluously capitalization of K in the name. The word 'bookkeeper' > is a single word. The norms of capitalization, in written language, > and also in CamelCase, dictate that only the first letter of a word > should ever be capitalized. What's more, since people are familiar > with this, the lean towards doing this, only remembering to add the K > some of the time. So we end up in the following situation. > > ivank@trainmoney-ll ~/src/bookkeeper Thu Oct > 23 10:45:31 [0 jobs] [hist 10099] > $ find . -name *.java -exec grep Bookkeeper {} \; | wc -l > 763 > ivank@trainmoney-ll ~/src/bookkeeper Thu Oct > 23 10:45:36 [0 jobs] [hist 10100] > $ find . -name *.java -exec grep BookKeeper {} \; | wc -l > 682 > > In the code, Bookkeeper is actually more common. > > The word bookkeeper is hard enough to type, with 3 consecutive double > letters, without having a random capitalization in the middle. > > Does this annoy anyone else? Should we kill the K? > > Regards > Ivan > > >
