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On 12/02/2013 02:01 PM, Jeff Jameson wrote:
> Okay, I think I understand this now. From a marketing perspective,
> the primary project name is not changing.

I apologize for not spending more time carefully crafting my message to
this list before sending it. Let me try to clarify.

A while ago there was a decision to officially refer to the various
openstack components with their service names, as opposed to their code
names. The service name is usually a generic English term that
identifies the service provided by the code base. For example, OpenStack
marketing material calls the virtual computing service "OpenStack
Compute" while the codebase is called Nova. Block Storage instead of
Cinder, Object Storage instead of Swift, etc. Check
http://openstack.org/start for example.

Since the issues we had with quantum/neutron the decision was to always
put more emphasis on the OpenStack <SERVICE> names instead of using the
(quite obscure) names of the code base. The <SERVICE> names are also
better at conveying what use is the code for and, since they're
prepended by the term OpenStack, they also reinforce the brand.

Going back to ceilometer, the name of the code base is *not* changing.
What the Technical Committee changed is the name of the program[1] into
'Telemetry', from Metering.

Since Metering is used as the 'official' name for the service provided
by the code Ceilometer I sent the message earlier to inform the
Marketing community that you may start seeing people calling ceilometer
"Telemetry" and that it may be necessary to update some material, like
the website. Hope I've made things clearer now.

Cheers,
stef


[1] there is a difference between a program and a project in OpenStack
but I prefer not to address that now. If you're interested in learning
more about OpenStack Programs read
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Programs


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