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Storage for private, distributed, offline-first applications.
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Rename Author to Identity #264

Closed sgwilym closed 1 year ago

sgwilym commented 1 year ago

The nomenclature changed so that Authors are now Identities. Type and method names should be changed to reflect this, with the exception of the author field on documents (which still makes sense).

sgwilym commented 1 year ago

In the end I think I'm not going to change things. There are author keypairs and share keypairs now. I'm not going to rename anything to Identity because Earthstar does not have an opinion on the notion of identity, it only cares about signing / verifying signatures. Identity is something for users to decide on themselves.