Sorry, Alex! Pick another :)

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 3:39 PM Kirk Lund <kl...@apache.org> wrote:

> I went ahead and closed out the ticket as "won't fix". Below is my
> explanation:
>
> Changing region names to not be case sensitive would break backwards
> compatibility for existing users. It's better for a given user to devise a
> standard naming scheme for regions to avoid any issues caused by trying to
> access the region using different cases.
>
> For example, if you want to avoid creating two similarly named regions
> that vary only by case, then you should standardize on always and only
> using lower case characters for naming Geode regions.
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 3:24 PM Jinmei Liao <jil...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>
>> I added the comment on this issue: Geode region names ARE case sensitive.
>> Should not fix.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 10:51 AM Alex Grisham <agris...@pivotal.io>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > I’ve recently gotten into the Geode community and have been looking for
>> a
>> > good place to start contributing. I found this Jira regarding Duplicate
>> > Region names (Geode-6286 <
>> >
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-6286?jql=project%20=%20GEODE%20AND%20issuetype%20=%20Bug%20AND%20priority%20in%20(Minor,%20Low,%20Trivial)%20AND%20resolution%20=%20Unresolved%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20ASC,%20updated%20DESC
>> >)
>> > and believe this would be a good place for me to start. Currently,
>> creating
>> > a region is case sensitive, so that “Region1” is different than
>> “region1”.
>> > However, this Jira is proposing that the check on region names not be
>> case
>> > sensitive, and only be focused on spelling. Before I begin working on
>> this
>> > Jira, I want to check to see if this case sensitive check was
>> purposeful,
>> > or if a spelling based check is preferred. I appreciate any
>> clarification.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > -Alex
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers
>>
>> Jinmei
>>
>

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