Rebrand (pre-RC)

[aanand]

Replaces #806.

Future versions of Fig are going to be rebranded to fit alongside the suite of Docker orchestration tools (the other ones currently being Machine and Swarm). The new name is Compose.

A number of things need to be done to make this happen:

• Rename the fig Python module to compose
• Rename fig.yml to compose.yml
• Deprecate FIG_* environment variables, introduce COMPOSE_* equivalents
• Rename the fig executable
  • Choose a name (chosen: docker-compose)
  • Rename Python stub at bin/fig
  • Rename binaries built by script/build-osx and script/build-linux
  • Update the Dockerfile
• Update name in docs, including all instances of:
  • fig executable
  • fig.yml
  • “Fig”
• Remove all website-related stuff from docs
  • Jekyll tooling (Dockerfile, fig.yml, build script)
  • CSS
  • Images
  • Markup
• Update name in README.md, ROADMAP.md and CONTRIBUTING.md
• Remove rebranding plans from ROADMAP.md
• Check that we haven’t messed up the word “config” (or any of its derivatives) anywhere
• Create a new PyPi package called docker-compose

[bfirsh]

Looks good! We probably can't call the binary "compose". Could we add a to-do item for choosing a name for the binary, so this does not look complete if you rename it to "compose"?

[dnephin]

Maybe docker-compose for the pypi package?

Another task might be: Update IRC channel in the docs to #docker-compose (and register the new channel) ?

[aanand]

@bfirsh@dnephin done.

[bfirsh]

• We also need to make it very clear in the documentation that "Compose" was called "Fig". So if you land on, e.g. www.fig.sh, it needs to be clearly explained what's going on and what Compose is.
• We probably want a redirect from www.fig.sh -> docs.docker.com/whatever

[aanand]

Are we really happy to redirect people from www.fig.sh? If people continue to use Fig for legacy reasons, I don't want to take their documentation away.

Hence "Add a deprecation warning to all pages on www.fig.sh" - I'm thinking a banner at the top saying "Fig has been deprecated and replaced by Docker Compose (link to docs.docker.com)".

[bfirsh]

👍 sounds good

[bfirsh]

This plan should probably also take into account that we're doing an official RC release.

E.g. we should be tagging and releasing 1.1.0-rc1

[sdurrheimer]

Any due date for the 1.1.0 ? I was hopping a new release of fig in order to use envfile and dns-search option, but with the rebrand this will take maybe longer.

[aanand]

Rebased, build is green.

[dnephin]

"Compose just read the file..." ?

[dnephin]

A fallback to fig.yml would be good too

[dnephin]

merging in-flight branches is going to be some work after this, but not much to be done about that

[aanand]

Typos fixed.

[dnephin]

LGTM

[aanand]

[albers]

I will take care of rebranding the bash completion very soon.

[Starefossen]

What about:

• repo name (dicker/fig => docker/compose)
• domain name (fig.sh => compose.sh)
• maybe add a note in README.md about "previously known as fig"

[aanand]

• We'll rename the repo for the stable release.
• There won't be a separate website for Compose - its docs will be rolled into docs.docker.com. www.fig.sh will stay up, and we'll add a banner to the top pointing people to the Compose docs.
• Good idea.

[albers]

Bash completion is rebranded, see #871.

[aanand]

@lePoxy We've released 1.1.0-rc1 - give it a whirl.

[sdurrheimer]

@aanand Saw it the day you released it, thanks :)

[Starefossen]

Hmm... fig was a lot shorter to type than docker-compose. Why couldn't the binary at least be compose?