Forum OpenACS Development: Workflow object type name

Posted by Peter Marklund on 01/10/03 11:37 AM

It turns out the old acs-workflow package uses the object type workflow. The plan is to remove that package from OACS. However, in order to avoid a clash for people who are installing the new workflow package on an existing installation I am resorting to the object type workflow_new for the new workflow package.

I'm not entirely happy with the new name and so if anybody has any better suggestions, please speak up now.

Thanks!

/Peter

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Posted by C. R. Oldham on 01/10/03 03:36 PM

sonofworkflow
workflow2
oworkflow

Dumb suggestions, agreed, but better than 'workflow_new' because someday it won't be new anymore.

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Posted by xx xx on 01/10/03 04:18 PM

track
action_tracker
(that is if they don't exist in OACS)

It seems workflow is meant:
- to keep one on the right track
- to track something down
- to move along an existing track

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Posted by Jun Yamog on 01/10/03 04:33 PM

Hi Peter,

Why not workflow_fs for Workflow Finite State. Still workflow since that is what we are use to. And fs to semi describe it.

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Posted by C. R. Oldham on 01/10/03 04:54 PM

I'll support that, good choice Jun!

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Posted by Lars Pind on 01/10/03 05:39 PM

Problem with mentioning FSM is that the data model isn't intended to be FSM only. There's a deliberate split between FSM-related and non-FSM-related things in the data model for exactly this reason.

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Posted by Tom Jackson on 01/10/03 07:31 PM

I guess it isn't consistent to use short abbreviations for this, so wf probably isn't an option. How about wrkflow, as in dotwrk?

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Posted by Samir Joshi on 01/11/03 09:19 AM

Some more suggestions : workflow_slim / workflow_lite /quick_workflow / workflow_i2 (i for iteration or incarnation).

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Posted by Mohan Pakkurti on 01/11/03 10:11 AM

How about "wf"? :)

Do we have any opinions about using really short names?

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Posted by Peter Marklund on 01/13/03 11:39 AM

Thanks for all the great suggestions! The name we've chosen to go with for now is workflow2. Hope that sounds ok to people.

/Peter