Rename project?

[Hoverbear]

As discussed in #74!

Thinking we should maintain a similar theme to other rust projects like Servo, Piston, etc.

Possible suggestions:

• Hovercraft
• Junction - Raft is responsible for applying commands to a replicated state machine, like a junction box.
• Replicator - Raft Replicates!
• rs-raft / raft-rs / rust-raft / raft-rust

  Votes

If you are a contributor or not please let us know what you favor. Majority is 5 in this cluster, or 4 if the 4 top contributors agree.

@hoverbear - raft-rs @danburkert - raft-rs @james-darkfox - TODO @tschottdorf - raft-rs @ongardie - hovercraft (Others)

[WildCryptoFox]

Mind having rational aside each suggestion?

Also my own suggestions:

• rs-raft: simply states that it is a raft implementation in rust. (may not be the only rust impl of raft)
• liferaft: raft as a consensus algorithm will attempt to keep the application alive, despite partitions and network unreliability.
• Rusty-liferaft: same as above, however, more rusty.

[Hoverbear]

@james-darkfox My personal feeling is something related to a machine part like piston/servo. I added that to the issue.

[WildCryptoFox]

Gotcha.

[jakerr]

I like fun names, but I also think it's really nice when possible, to allude to what the project is about or to its origins. For that reason I really like "Hovercraft" it's fun / catchy but also easy to remember as "Hoverbear's Raft Implementation". Also it has lots of potential for a cool logo!

[ycoady]

+1!

[WildCryptoFox]

hover c raft sounds like hoverbear's C raft implementation

[Hoverbear]

Maybe if we had C bindings it'd be suitable.

[Hoverbear]

After discussing a bit today I think that the right path is to take the raft crate name on Crates.io and name the project raft-rs... I'm open to permutations on that though.

Based off the fact that that Serde uses serde-rs... https://github.com/serde-rs/serde

[Hoverbear]

@james-darkfox brought up that in many cases packaging uses rs-raft style. (Posting because I think he's off now)

[erickt]

hovercraft is adorable. it's got your name and raft mashed in together!

[Hoverbear]

Also want to flag that https://crates.io/crates/raft does exist @mrhooray has it.

[WildCryptoFox]

Is there any process to transfer ownership? I.e. Add you as an owner, then revoke his own owner status?

I must say, I don't like the crates.io structure. Too fixed.

[ongardie]

@james-darkfox, based on http://doc.crates.io/crates-io.html, I don't think so:

Crate names are allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis. Once a crate name is taken it cannot be used for another crate.

[ongardie]

Rather, I guess you can probably do what you're saying of adding a new owner, but it probably needs to remain the "same" crate from crates.io's point of view.

[danburkert]

I agree we should probably rename the repo to something like 'raft-rs'. It would be great if we could get the raft crate, there is a process for sharing/transferring ownership, but it would be up to @mrhooray whether he wanted to do that. The existing raft crate is completely empty (nothing in lib.rs and no other rust files), and doesn't seem to be an associated repository.

[stefanpenner]

Hovercraft -> hoverraft

[WildCryptoFox]

As I said; and @danburkert linked to; once ownership is transferred - then hoverbear can own raft. This will have the side affect of requiring that we have a higher version number than @mrhooray 's current raft.

@ongardie Crates.io only cares for the crate name and the owners. The only "same" crate that comes into play is the version number and the crate-name.

[dwrensha]

I just want to say, "Hovercraft" -> "Hovercraft's Consensus Reaching And Fault Tolerant". Or "Hoverbear's consensus reacher and fault tolerator".

[WildCryptoFox]

First feels like it is missing a noun at the end. Second seems like the system is a 'tolerator'.

[Hoverbear]

@dwrensha Wow, ends up as HCRAFT?

Those are rather neat.

[Hoverbear]

I'm going to shoot @mrhooray and email and ask him if he's planning to utilize the namespace.

[mrhooray]

yo guys, i wanted to implement raft protocol but got distracted to some other problems already added @Hoverbear to owner

[mrhooray]

version wise wouldn't be an issue since the I left 0.0.0 there would love to get some time and contribute to this library/crate :)

[danburkert]

Thanks, @mrhooray. We're always looking for more contributors if you are still interested in raft.

[Hoverbear]

Thank you @mrhooray !

[Hoverbear]

@danburkert @james-darkfox @tschottdorf please let us know your final vote. :)

Anyone else is welcome as well. I'd like to close voting on the 21st at noon (Pacific) and make the change.

[ongardie]

In case it wasn't clear, I vote for hovercraft! This happened yesterday:

git clone https://github.com/Hoverbear/raft/ hovercraft

[Hoverbear]

@ongardie But what is the "c"????

[tbg]

I like raft-rs for the current term and will vote hovercraft if there's a next term without entries committed in the current one.

[erickt]

@Hoverbear, you'll just have to figure that out. The community has spoken.

[ongardie]

@Hoverbear, you don't need to explain every single letter in every single name. What the hell is "Raft", anyway?

[ongardie]

@erickt I'd like to think the community is larger than just me.

[Hoverbear]

@ongardie Robust Applied Functioning Terms.

[ongardie]

Here's what we came up with in the RAMCloud group meeting in 2012:

[erickt]

@ongardie I was also including @dwrensha, @jakerr, and myself :)

[erickt]

@ongardie: haha "BestPaper". I would have loved to have read that paper.

[Hoverbear]

@erickt Maybe "c" is the community.

[danburkert]

I vote for raft-rs, with raft being the crates.io name.

[Hoverbear]

Renaming!