Rename pacticipant to participant | Voters

Pact

Create

Roadmap

Feature Requests

Rename pacticipant to participant

Tim Jones

Pacticipant is a nice pun (and I do love puns), but it's hard to type, easy to misread as participant, and occasionally results in PRs to change it to participant. Also, I think "participant" carries the appropriate meaning.

February 4, 2021

Beth

If/when I rename it in v2, it will just be "application". The short flag in the CLI is "-a" for this reason. Making it "participant" would be a recipe for bugs I think as it's so close.

Yann Courtel

Why not 'asset'? it's short and we use it a lot to mix up any microservice or app.

Antonello Caboni

@Yann Courtel: asset makes me think of web assets 🤔

Antonello Caboni

I love pacticipant!

Matt Fellows

I think application would be better, personally. Or something that relates more to software than to a "participant in an agreement".

Matt Fellows

One of the main benefits to "participant" is that you could alias it without documenting it potentially because they are so close in spelling. I need to check, but I think the CLI tools have this alias in places.