[Hawkular-dev] the name of our hawkular agent/wildfly monitor/feed is confusing - I'm fixing it

[John Mazzitelli]

We still call things "feeds". To me, feeds are a superset - they are ANYTHING that are clients to Hawkular (shell scripts, python apps, cron jobs) and this includes more fully-featured agents.

The Hawkular WildFly Agent is something that runs inside of Wildfly as an extension subsystem. Its a type of feed. We could have called it Hawkular WildFly Feed, but frankly, I think that would have made people look at it crosseyed too. People know what a management agent is; "feed" not so much.

So, an agent is a type of feed - its a more fully featured hawkular feed.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :)

----- Original Message -----
> So does this mean the "feeds" in inventory should be renamed to "agents",
> too?
> 
> I thought that we wanted to move away from using the word agent but frankly I
> don't care too much.
> 
> On Monday, November 02, 2015 10:06:13 Thomas Heute wrote:
> > +1
> > 
> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 12:02 AM, John Mazzitelli <mazz at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > As I'm writing code and docs and javadocs all around, I realize that the
> > > name of our "agent" is utterly confused. We need to fix this or we will
> > > eventually confuse users/customers.
> > > 
> > > Right now in code, or comments, or docs, or just in talking, the names of
> > > the "agent" have been at one time or another:
> > > 
> > > agent
> > > wildfly monitor
> > > wildfly hawkular feed
> > > wildfly monitor agent
> > > wildfly extension
> > > wildfly agent module
> > > wildfly agent
> > > etc. etc. etc.
> > > 
> > > Over the weekend, I'm going to start renaming this so it is consistent
> > > across the board.
> > > 
> > > It will be called "Hawkular WildFly Agent"
> > > 
> > > This will affect maven artifact names moving forward. But we need to fix
> > > this now, because its confusing ME. I can only imagine the confusion when
> > > people start to ask "what do you call the hawkular thing that monitors
> > > Wildfly?"
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