1497919 - Find a name for the "mobile telemetry sdk"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

The mobile SDK will live in the android-components repo. However, the "telemetry" name was already taken by the "telemetry-android" legacy library and it can't be renamed. [1] This is because we're publishing the library on Maven, and the directory name is the package name.

We should find a name for the mobile SDK directory, so that Sebastian can create a template library for us to start developing there. Bikeshedding is needed!

Current proposals:

- telemetry2
- telemetry_sdk
- mobile_telemetry
- mobile_telemetry_sdk

[1] - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/tree/master/components/service/

Comment 1

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

Hey folks, any suggestion?

Comment 2

[Chris H-C :chutten]

I think the bikeshed should be ochre[1].

`telemetry_sdk` is fine by me. Bland, but descriptive. Are they supposed to be snake_case or css-case?

[1]: http://ochre.colorcode.is/

Comment 3

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

Is a gdoc or similar maybe better for suggestions/comments/+1s?

I'll throw in moztelemetry / moz_telemetry. (no strong favor on it though)
-1 to suffixing with a "2". (that gives us baggage in the future when we transition)
+1 to anything that is bland but descriptive.
"mobile" prefixes might be redundant in the context (mobile repositories etc.)

Comment 4

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

Anything from your end Mike?

Comment 5

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

(In reply to Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter] from comment #0)
> The mobile SDK will live in the android-components repo. However, the
> "telemetry" name was already taken by the "telemetry-android" legacy library
> and it can't be renamed. [1] This is because we're publishing the library on
> Maven, and the directory name is the package name.

If it's published there, should we have a some mozilla/moz/... prefix to differentiate it?

Comment 6

[Jan-Erik Rediger [:janerik]]

For documentation purposes one thing that was discussed: Glean

glean: to gather information or material bit by bit (via https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glean)

moztelemetry is already in use by other project (e.g. https://github.com/mozilla/python_moztelemetry)

Comment 7

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

(In reply to Jan-Erik Rediger [:janerik] from comment #6)
> For documentation purposes one thing that was discussed: Glean
> 
> glean: to gather information or material bit by bit (via
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glean)

By looking at Slack as well, looks like there is consensus around "glean". I like it too! From a quick search on the Internet, it looks like I can't find any other telemetry product called like that. I'm closing this as fixed!