F20 System Wide Change: Web Assets

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Tue Jul 23 02:41:48 UTC 2013


On 7/22/13, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:23 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 07/22/2013 12:31 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> Can we please use a different name, like "webdata"?  The term "asset"
>> >> seems
>> >> to scare some people.
>> >
>> > Huh?  It's a pretty common industry term for "static bits used as
>> > dependencies for websites". I've never heard of anyone being scared
>> > of it.
>>
>> The term has a completely different meaning in the fields of law and
>> accounting.
>
> Fortunately we're making an operating system, not prosecuting a case or
> auditing anyone's accounts, so that does not seem to present a problem.

Indeed.  Also you'll notice that upthread we agreed to change the
directory to /usr/share/web-assets just to reduce any potential
confusion here.

-T.C.


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