Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Stefan Bodewig
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

Tentative 1.8.0 Release Proposal

2009-12-18 Thread Stefan Bodewig
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

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Kevin Jackson
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    (b)

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Antoine Levy Lambert
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

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Matt Benson
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

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2009-12-18, Kevin Jackson foamd...@gmail.com 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

Re: Naming of target-group

2009-12-18 Thread Nicolas Lalevée
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:12:25 +0100, Stefan Bodewig bode...@apache.org 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