[Mageia-discuss] New name for cooker

Tue Sep 21 10:42:25 CEST 2010

Jan Ciger <jan.ciger at gmail.com>
+> Guys, let's keep it pronounceable and easy to remember, shall we? It
+> will probably wind up in the names of mailing lists and web page and
+> such and name that nobody can spell/pronounce correctly is no good.
+> Cooker was good from this point of view.
+> 
+> Things like "mathetria" or "hephaestus" are not.
+I don't think, most people would have problems pronouncing hephaestus, at 
+least not in Europe and America, since in the European languages there is some 
+greek background to be found.
+
+> 
+> For me "cooker" was somehow always the person doing the cooking (the
+> "cook"), not so much the pot (as in "pressure cooker"). However,
+> keeping with the "thing" approach - why not "foundry", "lab", or
+> "crucible"? Even "pot" would work.
+I would advice against "pot", since "Pott" is at least in German the nickname 
+for some drug (don't ask me, which exactly,I don't take drugs).
+
+Oliver
+