Created the issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-950
Thanks, Arvind On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Arvind Prabhakar <[email protected]>wrote: > As stated in the write-ups, documentation and discussed in various > presentations and meetups, Flume (ng) uses the notion of "Agent" which is > different from the previous implementation's use of the term "node". While > this has been discussed informally in various forums, we have not been > disciplined enough to make this clear in the code itself. Consequently, the > code for Flume (ng) still references "node" in many places and is confusing > to say the least. > > To make the code aligned with the terminology used in design discussions > in various forums, I am suggesting that we formally retire the term "node" > in favor of the term "agent". This will require non-trivial code and > documentation changes. However, not doing it now will increase the cost of > fixing this later and add to the confusion of folks transitioning from the > prior implementation to current implementation. > > Thanks, > Arvind >
