<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hey everyone, I was going through the different charms, their relations, and ultimately the interfaces they provide/consume. One thing I noticed was an inconsistency of relation names (or what I think is called the "relation name"). I know there was chatter of eventually solidifying interface specs and names, but would that include (what I've been referring to as) relation names? Here's a few examples: We have a rockin' MySQL[1] charm which at it's core provides a db relation using the mysql interface (db being the relation name). There's another sweet charm, MongoDB[2], which provides a database relation using the mongodb interface. I'm under the impression that the relation names for these two charms _should_ be the same, right? If so, there are some other common "relation names" that I think should be fixed or considered. I would assume that these would be bugs opened for each charm it affects but another example would be the nfs[3] charm which provides both an nfs relation and interface. This causes a bit of a conflict with a few of the up-and-coming shared filesystems (which nfs falls under that category). Those other charms are using a shared-fs[4] relation name and either nfs, mount, or another interface name. UDS will probably be the best place to open discussions about how to handle this (if this is indeed an issue) but I wanted to start poking to see if what I'm thinking makes sense and how to handle this. Thanks! Marco Ceppi 1: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="http://jujucharms.com/charms/precise/mongodb">http://jujucharms.com/charms/precise/mysql</a> 2: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="http://jujucharms.com/charms/precise/mongodb">http://jujucharms.com/charms/precise/mongodb</a> 3: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="http://jujucharms.com/charms/precise/mongodb">http://jujucharms.com/charms/precise/nfs</a> 4: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="http://jujucharms.com/%7Emarcoceppi/precise/gluster-client">http://jujucharms.com/~marcoceppi/precise/gluster-client</a> </body> </html>