Parts of the API depend on the name 'product'

[William Grant]

Some parts of the webservice API use the name 'product'. It should probably be made consistent both to reduce confusion and ease transition if/when everything is properly renamed internally (bug 109153).

The guilty attributes and methods are:

IDistributionSourcePackage.upstream_product
ICommercialSubcription.product
ITranslationImportQueueEntry.productseries
ISourcePackage.productseries
IMilestone.createProductRelease

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Leonard suggested on bug 368854, that those names should be kept for backwards compatibility.
I'm in favor of duplicating bug 368854 against this one, and use this one as a central point to gather all api attributes and methods that need updating.
Curtis, what do you think?

[William Grant (wgrant)]

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 02:31 +0000, Diogo Matsubara wrote:
> Leonard suggested on bug 368854, that those names should be kept for
> backwards compatibility. I'm in favor of duplicating bug 368854
> against this one, and use this one as a central point to gather all
> api attributes and methods that need updating. Curtis, what do you
> think?

Given that the API is still beta and only exists on edge, now is the
perfect time to break compatibility and drop the old names. Or maybe
after a release. But soon, before too many things depend on them.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

We most definitely should complete the internal renaming of product -> project and project -> project group. I'll leave it to Curtis to schedule, but it should happen before 3.0 IMHO, and then probably the sooner the better. Now that we've reorg'd the registry tree, it should be easier to do.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

We really want this fixed, but it is never a priority. Maybe we can get some better estimates of this effort to make it a priority