New official nomeclature ...

[Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>]

We don't really have any equivalent to master/slave when we talk about
SolrCloud, we have leader/replica.

But then we overload "replica" to include the leader which leads to
really awkward sentences.

So what do you think about referring to leaders/followers when we want
to be specific about the role of a particular node?

FWIW
Erick

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Re: New official nomeclature ...

[Shawn Heisey <so...@elyograg.org>]

On 6/20/2013 1:22 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:
> We don't really have any equivalent to master/slave when we talk about
> SolrCloud, we have leader/replica.
>
> But then we overload "replica" to include the leader which leads to
> really awkward sentences.
>
> So what do you think about referring to leaders/followers when we want
> to be specific about the role of a particular node?

I like your idea.

Based on my experiences in IRC and on solr-user, I think that we're 
going to have trouble no matter what we use for terminology.  People 
just can't seem to accept the idea that leader is a temporary 
designation and that replication is rarely used.

I know I put a comment on an issue somewhere about having SolrCloud use 
a special (and possibly hidden) replication handler, so that people 
visiting the Replication tab don't ask us why their leader says it's a 
slave.

Thanks,
Shawn


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