Rationale ========= Current efforts to make plainbox, checkbox and various job providers translatable are affected by the fact that we abuse JobDefinition.name as both english-like constant identifier and user-visible name. I would like to decouple those roles. Proposal ======== 1. I would like to propose that the on-disk format field ``name`` be deprecated and not used anymore. 2. If the field ``name`` is used, it will be transparently mapped to ``id`` and used to define the new job attribute ``JobDefinition.id``. All uses of ``name`` will cause warnings to be logged. After a while we can remove that feature and rejects the ``name`` field (for another period, after which we could reuse it). 3. A new field ``summary`` is defined and mandatory for all jobs. The summary field must be one line, short (capped to some reasonable amount) and should be derived from the current name field in a meaningful way (manually, one time transition process). 4. The ``summary`` field will be translatable 5. PlainBox will resort to ``JobDefinition.summary`` instead of ``.id`` whenever the job needs to be displayed or converted to a string. Impact ====== This proposal would need to see forked job definitions *or* add support for ``summary`` in the old checkbox. The level of required support is minimal, only to the point where current functionality does not regress