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This issue has been linked to a Canny post: Rename pacticipant to participant :tada:
Matt Fellows - February 4, 2021
I think application would be better, personally. Or something that relates more to software than to a "participant in an agreement".
Matt Fellows - February 4, 2021
One of the main benefits to "participant" is that you could alias it without documenting it potentially because they are so close in spelling. I need to check, but I think the CLI tools have this alias in places.
Antonello Caboni - February 4, 2021
I love pacticipant!
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Yann Courtel - February 4, 2021
Why not 'asset'? it's short and we use it a lot to mix up any microservice or app.
Yann Courtel - February 4, 2021
Why not 'asset'? it's short and we use it a lot to mix up any microservice or app.
Antonello Caboni - February 4, 2021
Yann Courtel: asset makes me think of web assets 🤔
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Beth - February 4, 2021
If/when I rename it in v2, it will just be "application". The short flag in the CLI is "-a" for this reason. Making it "participant" would be a recipe for bugs I think as it's so close.
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Beth - May 10, 2021
Can I state for the public record how MUCH I regret "pacticipant"! I generally dislike puns, so I have no idea what led me to use this name. It was chosen when I thought this was just going to be a little internal service used by a few companies max. I had no idea that so many people (myself included!) were going to be caused typing issues for so many years!
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Pacticipant is a nice pun (and I do love puns), but it's hard to type, easy to misread as participant, and occasionally results in PRs to change it to participant. Also, I think "participant" carries the appropriate meaning.
https://pact.canny.io/admin/board/feature-requests/p/rename-pacticipant-to-participant
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