RE: Making a case for cases

["Chestnut, Ronald P." <ronc@slac.stanford.edu>]

Just so that this discussion does not stay so dry – ITER has a naming convention to be avoided at all costs …

 

The only people doing “real” work up to now are the accountants and mechanical designers, so the core of the naming convention is the Work Breakdown Structure number of the component.

 

Ron Chestnut

From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Alan Biocca
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 3:32 PM
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: Making a case for cases

 

One thing that is worth considering for new projects is to make a program that builds names. A web based application might be best. So whatever is decided is codified into this one name ratifier.

Record aliases are of great use also where two naming conventions might meet. For example BPMs and other sensors are of several physical types, but from some views they might not have the same variation in naming as they might from a lower level view.

-- Alan

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov> wrote:

On Thursday 05 August 2010 14:10:52 Purcell, J. David wrote:
>
> There are different interpretations that all allow different "valid" names.
>  But lack of enforcement also allowed names to also be flat out wrong.  And
> now those names are imbedded and we have no real plan on how to fix them.
> In the beginning, if we were told to fix the wrong names, there might have
> been an effort to get to one interpretation of the convention.

Note that since R3.14.11 the IOC supports record aliases, which may provide a
path to fixing wrong names (as long as the right names don't clash with other
wrong names).  You would rename the records to the right names and add aliases
for the wrong names that are in use, which allows you to take as long as you
like to fix all the clients that are still using the wrong names; finally you
delete the aliases when they are no longer needed.  If you do have name
clashes you can probably still do it, but it might take a few cycles.

- Andrew
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