[rfc][icedtea-web] Resource Status Rename (super small patch)

[Jacob Wisor]

On 08/15/2014 08:56 PM, Jie Kang wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When studying the ResourceTracker I found the Status names and what they meant were not completely obvious. I have changed the names:
>
> Connect -> Preinitialize  and Download -> Predownload
>    The new names are more informative of the resources state.
>
> Connecting -> Initializing Connected -> Initialized
>
> The connect->connecting->connected state refers to the process of initializing the resource. A connection does occur within initializing but there is much more being done than that. As such I think the name preinitialize -> initializing -> initialized is more accurate.

Nevertheless, your renaming proposal completely dumps the notion of connecting 
to or for a resource, which is quite essential to this whole concept. Perhaps 
you could try again and still incorporate the "connect" term? Maybe you could 
add one or two new states with additional code to make things more clear?

> Started -> Processing
>    The STARTED state afaik means that the resource is either currently connecting, or downloading, or in queue waiting to be connected and/or downloaded. I think Processing is more informative than started.
>
> Of course when I wrote this patch I feel like the easiest response against is that there isn't much point to changing the names but I think it's helpful to have code that is quickly understandable.

Indeed, as many even wiser people than me have noted, naming in computer science 
is very important and a considerable amount of effort should be put into it when 
developing software or creating concepts. Unfortunately, the world does not 
always work like this. This is why there are some great pieces of software out 
there with great concepts sometimes solving real problems but suffer from 
terrible nomenclature. Naming is indeed important. So, +1 for your effort.

Jacob