Rename to app-route

[tjsavage]

It is time.

We've gotten continual and well-reasoned feedback that the periodic-table element naming scheme is cute but very confusing, especially for new developers coming to Polymer and the components.

Since the "carbon" elements are a new product line and really all about building apps, let's just call them what they are: the app-* elements.

Question: this should probably warrant a major version bump?

Task list (added by rictic):

• rename in this repo's source code
• rename the repo itself
• stamp v0.9.0
• update the docs repo
• update the blog post

[abdonrd]

Wow! Nice news!

[rictic]

Yay!

If we rename the repo (and I think we should) then this does require a major version bump to prevent breaking existing users, so we can call the app-router release v0.9.0. At the same time, we're taking a look at PR #77 around this weekend which is a (small) breaking change as well.

Do we have a date before which we want to land this rename? Doing two major version bumps wouldn't be much of a problem if the rename needs to land quick.

[tjsavage]

Agreed on bumping to 0.9.

Let's try to land this rename early next week, so if that can coincide with the other breaking change that'd be perfect.

[atomikolex]

There already is Erik Ringsmuth's https://github.com/erikringsmuth/app-router... Just saying.

[abdonrd]

@atomikolex Well, change one character... route vs router. 😅
PolymerElements/app-route vs erikringsmuth/app-router

[atomikolex]

Sure thing. Just thought the similarity may actually enhance confusion for older users.

Also, as this namespace falls in line with the app-layout lab elements, it may be difficult to understand why these new elements would be all about building apps - compared to the paper, neon, gold, or platinum elements.

If you are breaking your naming system in order to respond to the above feedback, maybe you should do a full reshuffle across all element lines, and strip the abstractness and fragmentation of the current system. Why not model a new system on a short and catchy namespace, like Angular's -ng?

[tjsavage]

@atomikolex Agreed, a full reshuffle is probably the goal, to get more concrete and less abstract. It would be a big catalog-wide breaking change though, so this current plan is a bit to test the waters with changing a single name of a new element and also introduce some forthcoming new elements with the app-* name. If it works out, we'll be able to have a little more data and be able to plan a better more for a larger rename.

[atomikolex]

As always, I am sure you will come up with a good solution, if you need to make that change. For a big overhaul, my vote would be for a unified system, taking in the Polymer brand somehow.

[gaurav21r]

This should be closed? @rictic

[rictic]

Yep!