On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Joachim Dreimann < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 17 June 2013 17:08, David Galligani <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 06/17/2013 06:02 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > >> Thanks, David. > >> > >> So Products is the same as Projects? > >> > > I can't say ... > > I don't know what you mean for Project :) > > But I think that's what you want . > > > > Yes, we decided to call them Products some time back. They're the same > thing currently as Projects were in Trac, with the major difference to Trac > being of course that you can have more than one (read: many) of them. > > "Product" better reflects how many organisations develop software: They > sell it (or give it away) as products, or they use it internally as > products to do jobs. They are reasonably permanent and many iterations, > versions, milestones, and projects may improve a product over time. > > A project is something you do to achieve an aim, like create introduce a > major change to a product or create a product in the first place. Or take > on a project for a client if you're in a consultancy. By definition they > are more transient. We may re-introduce projects in the future for those > purposes. > > I hope that helps to explain some of the reasoning behind our decision. You > can change the label to project if you prefer in the TracIni file: > https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/wiki/TracIni > > wiki.label = Wiki > tickets.label = Tickets > products.label = Products > > Cheers, > Joe The meaning of "Products" , and whether Projects are the same as Products seems to be a frequently asked question. A user on IRC raised this question again this evening, and made the very good point that the Bloodhound UI uses the term "Products" and our Change Log on the front page of i.a.o refers these things as "Products", however on that same page we have a heading describing one of Bloodhound's key features: "Multiple Projects". On apache.bloodhound.org we also talk about "Projects" rather than "Products". The pages that describe "Multiple Projects" have been around since the beginning of Bloodhound, but maybe we need to be more precise with our own terminology since we seem to be confusing new users.
