[ClusterLabs] Antw: Re: Possible idea for 2.0.0: renaming the Pacemaker daemons

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com> schrieb am 09.04.2018 um 19:10 in Nachricht
<1523293841.5734.7.camel at redhat.com>:
> Based on the list discussion and feedback I could coax out of others, I
> will change the Pacemaker daemon names, including the log tags, for
> 2.0.0-rc3.
> 
> I will add symlinks for the old names, to allow help/version/metadata
> calls in user scripts and higher-level tools to continue working during
> a transitional time. (Even if we update all known tools, we need to
> keep compatibility with existing versions for a good while.)
> 
> I won't change the systemd unit file names or API library names, since
> they aren't one-to-one with the daemons, and will have a bigger impact
> on client apps.
> 
> Here's my current plan:
> 
> Old name          New name
> --------          --------
> pacemakerd        pacemakerd
> attrd             pacemaker-attrd
> cib               pacemaker-confd
> crmd              pacemaker-controld
> lrmd              pacemaker-execd
> pengine           pacemaker-schedulerd
> stonithd          pacemaker-fenced
> pacemaker_remoted pacemaker-remoted

I think the common "pacemaker-" prefix is too long. "pcmkr-" instead?

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> 
> I had planned to use the "pcmk-" prefix, but I kept thinking about the
> goal of making things more intuitive for novice users, and a novice
> user's first instinct will be to search the logs for "pacemaker". Most
> of the names stay under the convenient 15-character limit anyway.

If the user searches logs before reading the docs, the user has a more severe problem IMHO.

[...]

Regards,
Ulrich