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so, taking a look at this (because it seems like a good one with which to dive into the repo and gain a broader familiarity/see all the pieces), quite a bunch of places all across the source and docs that mention lemmy and use
lemmyin element/crate/resource names:tackling it would be best in stages, I think. both because in general I'm not a big fan of gigantic branches (being a complete pain to review, and absent really really good testing it's easy for things to slip through), and because that's just this repo even
for a staged rename of things, probably makes sense to try tackle subsystems one at a time? would we want to tag versions for each stage completion?
even just looking at the list of places the name got used... oof. some deeeeeeply baked assumptions in here
i mean, lib names and so on is fine really
I was thinking more the models and such
I want to hold off on this for a bit since it will impact our ability to grab commits from upstream; for now I’d recommend we keep
lemmyas a legacy symbol and usephilthyin new development. once we’re in a good place for this, I imagine it makes sense to do it in stages, in an outside-in pattern — that is, we’d start by renaming things like the executable that’s very visible but breaks relatively little, then gradually make more internal, breaking changesthat's a fair point too. will probably take a little while to find/develop some patterns for do now vs do later