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Rename "Drop*" to "Retry*" #99

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arnecls opened this issue Apr 24, 2017 · 0 comments
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Rename "Drop*" to "Retry*" #99

arnecls opened this issue Apr 24, 2017 · 0 comments

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arnecls commented Apr 24, 2017

The term Drop lead to a lot of confusion.
Most people thing of "drop" as an destructive operation (like in mysql, ip, etc.). As of this drop was mistaken as a discard in the past quite often.
The "Drop" mechanism was originally thought of as kind of an exception handling mechanism: If you cannot deliver a message, drop it, so somebody else might catch it. So basically it implements a "retry by routing" operation.

  • Find all occurrences of "Drop*" and replace them by "Retry*"
  • Make it clear that this operation is a "retry in case of error" in the documentation
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