Re: Renaming Heketi CLI

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On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 07:37:07AM -0400, Luis Pabon wrote:
> Thanks Niels.  I was explaining to another person offline that Heketi is like a GlusterFS cloud volume manager.  So maybe we should call it gcvm:
> 
> $ gcvm volume create ..?

I'm not sure if anyone would see a relation to Gluster with "gcvm".

glfs-heketi is still my 1st choice :)

Cheers,
Niels

> 
> What do you think?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Niels de Vos" <ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Luis Pabon" <lpabon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 5:53:43 AM
> Subject: Re:  Renaming Heketi CLI
> 
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 12:36:56AM -0400, Luis Pabon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >   As you may know, Heketi (https://github.com/heketi/heketi) is a service that allows volumes to be created on demand from any number of GlusterFS clusters.  The program heketi-cli was at first created as a sample application for developers, but now that we will be working on it to be used by users, I am not sure if the name is appropriate, and is probably confusing.  My question is, should the program still be called "heketi-cli"?.  I am thinking it should be called something along the lines of GlusterFS-family-like program:
> > 
> > Here are some names for the cli:
> > 
> > $ glfs-heketi volume create ...
> 
> I like this one best. "glfs" is a common abbreviation for GlusterFS.
> 
> > or
> > 
> > $ glfs volume create ...
> 
> When naming the binary "glfs", it needs to be very modular, similar to
> how "git" can run additional binaries. Other projects may want to use
> the common "glfs" name too.
> 
> > or
> > 
> > $ glusterfs-cloud volume create ...
> 
> My 2nd choice.
> 
> > or
> > 
> > $ gfsc volume create ...
> 
> GFS is like the Global File System, not GlusterFS.
> 
> > or
> > 
> > $ gfscloud volume create ...
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> Thanks,
> Niels

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