RE : [PROPOSAL] Change name of birt component

[Youssef Khaye <yo...@o-toit.com>]

Good idea but I prefer report-engine or report-tools. 

<div>-------- Message d'origine --------</div><div>De : Pierre Smits <pi...@gmail.com> </div><div>Date :26/02/2015  00:46  (GMT+01:00) </div><div>A : dev@ofbiz.apache.org </div><div>Objet : [PROPOSAL] Change name of birt component </div><div>
</div>Hi all,

Currently, all component names describe - in one word - what the components
are about and what kind of functionality the user - from a business point
of view - can expect. As examples: accounting is related to the various
accounting (financial, gl, invoicing, payment, , etc) functions and
services, and projectmgr is related to program and project management,
project task assignment and time registration.

The birt component is a bit the odd one out. The name doesn't say in that
one word what it delivers. In stead it is an acronym for a specific third
party integration solution and another open source project with the same
name (birt, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIRT_Project ). One could
even say it is the name of a tool, not the name of a business
functionality.

In order to be able to increase awareness of the multitude of business
functionalities (as could be done by using the name of the components) and
improve adoption, I suggest to change the name (and the references to it in
the component and others) to something that is more to the point business
wise.

I propose we rename it to 'reports'.

What do you think?

Best regards,


Pierre Smits

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