[Pulp-dev] pulp 3 distributor use cases

[Austin Macdonald]

+1 rename to Exporter.

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 10:13 AM, Brian Bouterse <bbouters at redhat.com> wrote:

> +1 to renaming a Pulp3 'Distributor' to be 'Exporter'. The name of a
> 'Distribution' (when Pulp serves bits using its webserver) would stay the
> same. Currently the names Distributor and Distribution sound so similar
> that its very confusing. A Distribution and an Exporter would be clearer
> names I think.
>
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Dennis Kliban <dkliban at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Distributors are only used for exporting Publications out of Pulp.
>>
>> Distributions make Publications available to consume via http(s) at
>> /content/relative/path/of/distribution/. Each Publication can be
>> associated with any number of Distributions.
>>
>> The names are very similar, but perform different function. Perhaps
>> Distributors should be called Exporters instead.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Eric Helms <ehelms at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Will Pulp 3 support multiple distributors on a single repository? Could
>>> I, for example, attach the yum distributor multiple times but with a
>>> different output path to publish the same repository at different locations?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eric
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:54 AM, Dennis Kliban <dkliban at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've updated the MVP use cases for the Distributors. The diff is
>>>> here[0]. I removed the use case of a distributor exporting a Repository
>>>> Version. The idea is to give users a single way to export repository
>>>> versions. Users will first create a publication and then use a distributor
>>>> to export that publication.
>>>>
>>>> Please reply to this thread with any suggestions for the use cases
>>>> related to Distributors.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to write up stories for these use cases early next week, so
>>>> the work can be merged by Feb 15th.
>>>>
>>>> [0] https://pulp.plan.io/projects/pulp/wiki/Pulp_3_Minimum_Viabl
>>>> e_Product/diff?utf8=%E2%9C%93&version=143&version_from=142&c
>>>> ommit=View+differences
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dennis
>>>>
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>>>
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