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Terminology clarification: "job"?

Open davidtheclark opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

It looks to me like "job" is being used interchangeably to describe the complete work that the Watchbot app performs, start to finish, and the partial work that individual workers perform. Is that right?

If so, I wonder if there's some terminology we could add to distinguish these two entities. I think it could reduce confusion, especially for new learners like me. Also, if we establish terminology in the docs here, hopefully modules that use ecs-watchbot will stick with it and we'll have some consistency between projects.

cc @who8mycakes

davidtheclark avatar Oct 27 '16 17:10 davidtheclark

When I am my best self, I say "job" to indicate an end-to-end process that watchbot performs, and I say "part" when I'm talking about a job that's been split into pieces as part of a reduce: true watchbot system.

I am not always my best self.

rclark avatar Nov 01 '16 17:11 rclark