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From: "Dan Allen" <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com>
To: "Misty Stanley-Jones" <misty(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Pete Muir" <pmuir(a)redhat.com>, "JBoss AS7 Development"
<jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 3:12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Documentation - Naming conventions
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 17:59, Misty Stanley-Jones < misty(a)redhat.com >
wrote:
For the Enterprise docs, we do not shorten the name. We use
"Enterprise Application Platform" in all cases. I have seen a
directive to use "JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, provided by
Red Hat" at the first instance, and shorten that to "JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform." However, that has not caught on. Specifically,
we do not ever shorten it to EAP, even though it would probably make
our lives easier if we could.
I'd argue that it's important to include the acronym, not just for
convenience but for clarity. The reason is, we toss around the acronym
like an old glove on the website and in interviews, blog entries, and
other media channels. If we never put the two together in the
documentation, then it's really odd and confusing when it comes up.
Why not do it like all other acronyms are introduced.
JBoss Application Server (AS)
and
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
This was a decision made by people outside of docs. It has to do with branding and
trademarking, I believe.
-Dan
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