[feedhenry-dev] mobile client or mobile app

[Matthias Wessendorf]

+1 on something like "logical construct / logical representation"   - and
right UPS has also had some naming struggles :)

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:11 AM, David Martin <davmarti at redhat.com> wrote:

> The term 'Resource' may not suit as it has a meaning in the Kubernetes
> world.
> Any object that kubernetes exposes an API for is a resource e.g. Secrets,
> Pods, Deployments are all resources.
>
> In UPS, there's the idea of a 'Push Application', defined here [1]
> "PushApplication
> A logical construct that represents an overall mobile application"
>
> I don't see any problem with giving it a name like 'Mobile Client' and
> calling it out in terminology in a similar manner
> "MobileClient
> A logical construct that represents an overall mobile application"
>
> [1] https://aerogear.org/docs/unifiedpush/ups_userguide/
> index/#_useful_terminology
>
> On 29 November 2017 at 09:42, Paul Wright <pwright at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> and that conversation makes me think we need to be more descriptive, eg
>>
>> Mobile App Resource Client (MARC)
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 11/29/2017 09:38 AM, Craig Brookes wrote:
>>
>> Spoke with Paul offline. And he thought we were referring to mobile app
>> through out our docs. So to clarify I meant with the context of the mcp UI
>> and CLI.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Paul Wright <pwright at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It seems to me that to tackle the mobile market, we should embrace the
>>> lingua franca, and the one word that unites mobile,cell phone, smartphone,
>>> handys, etc is 'App'
>>>
>>> Paul
>>> my original draft reply:
>>>
>>> Mondays...
>>>
>>> Let's fix everything <sigh>
>>>
>>> I'm not against this change, but would like to throw in a note of
>>> caution:
>>>
>>> 1. I don't think OpenShift are really pushing the term apps. Sure,
>>> there's a command, and even some doc references (
>>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_ent
>>> erprise/3.2/html/installation_and_configuration/install-conf
>>> ig-imagestreams-templates#creating-instantapp-templates), but would
>>> like to check with them before assuming that's deliberate. In my mind,
>>> their term of choice is Application, a bit more of an enterprisey term.
>>>
>>> 2. Does "Mobile Clients" solve a problem? we already have a generation
>>> of ppl saying "there's an app for that", do we want to embrace that or swim
>>> upstream? what about when there's a web ui to something, we used to bundle
>>> mobile and web into the term 'client app'.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/27/2017 11:03 AM, Jason Madigan wrote:
>>>
>>> Deep thoughts this early in the week. App is quite a loaded term
>>> alright, particularly in an OpenShift context, so I think Mobile Client may
>>> be a clearer distinction.
>>>
>>> Looping in our wordsmith Paul who may have other ideas.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Craig Brookes <cbrookes at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Was thinking about terminology . We have been using the term mobile
>>>> app, but I wonder would it be clearer to use the term mobile client
>>>> instead.
>>>> The main reason for this is that app can mean a server side component
>>>> (in OpenShift there is the new-app command for example). I think it would
>>>> make a clearer distinction. Another example is around the word build. When
>>>> you do an app build in OpenShift it normally produces a docker image and a
>>>> running server / app. I think using the the term mobile client build makes
>>>> it clearer what is happening.
>>>>
>>>> Just a thought for a Monday morning.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Craig Brookes
>>>> RHMAP
>>>> @maleck13 Github
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>> Engineering Manager, Red Hat Mobile
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>> Craig Brookes
>> RHMAP
>> @maleck13 Github
>>
>>
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