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

Fri Feb 11 20:01:23 CET 2011

Le jeudi 10 février 2011 23:58:12, 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.
+> 
+> Some people have already proposed :
+> 
+> Mageia Find Out
+> Mageia Application Database/Discovery/Foundry
+> Mageia Application Warehouse/Mall/Store/Shop
+> Mageia - Explore Applications
+> Mageia - World of Applications
+> 
+> But other suggestions are still welcome.
+> 
+
+There were already various interesting proposals, but they all revolve more or 
+less around the "app store" concept, whereas mageia-app-db is not only that : 
+it's also meant to help communication betwenn users, testers and packagers 
+(mainly via testing requests / backports requests, at first).
+
+Do you think we can add this to the reflexion ?
+
+As a reminder, here is the full record of goals : 
+http://mageia-app-db.tuxette.fr/projects/mageia-app-db/wiki/NeedsAndFunctionalities
+
+Best regards
+
+Samuel
+