[Zope3-dev] RFC: Rename "principal" to "participant", my 2p ;-)

[Chris Withers]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>>- BUT, given that it's a big change and likely invalidates a lot of dead
>>tree material, I'd suggest we just stick with principal and be done with
>>it ;-)
> 
> If that last point were the doctrine by which previous refactorings had
> to be undertaken (e.g. the refactoring of the Component Architecture),
> we would still be stuck with services and other antiquated concepts.

I'd hardly call them antiquated. I agree that early on in a project, the 
freedom to change and refactor freely is great, but at some point, when 
you want lots of people to adopt your project, you need to slow down and 
stop making wide ranging changes unless you really really need to.

In this case, it's a largely cosmetic change that doesn't do anything 
except invalidate a whole load of documentation ;-)

cheers,

Chris

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