[Mageia-discuss] A name for mageia-app-db

Fri Feb 11 12:02:21 CET 2011

+Le vendredi 11 février 2011 11:53:28, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 23:58 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> > As Marcello pointed out, mageia-app-db is not the best name we can find
+> > for our application database.
+> >
+> > So let's try to find one :)
+> >
+> > Some constraints :
+> > - preferably a name without "Mageia" in it. Why ? Because this tool could
+> > be used for various distributions. Of course, the Mageia instance will
+> > have Mageia's logo and name on it (and we are creating it as a part of
+> > the Mageia project), but if someday another distribution wants to use it,
+> > it will feel weird to have Mageia in the application name. In fact, I
+> > already plan to run instances of the application for opensuse, fedora and
+> > mandriva (no, nobody asked me to do it, but it will be easy to do, and
+> > this will help me keep in mind that the application must not entirely
+> > depend on distribution specific stuff, or only via modules/plugins).
+> > - a name with a meaning carrying at least some part of the goals of the
+> > application, but without forgetting that it's still an application (and
+> > packages) database.
+> 
+> What about adding :
+> - a name that could inspire a logo
+> - a name that is not trademarked
+> - a name that is not already used on freshmeat nor as a package on the
+> major distro
+> 
+
+Indeed, that was kind of implicit, but better saying it loud :)
+
+Samuel
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