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

Sat Feb 12 13:28:03 CET 2011

 On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:09 +0100, Rémi Verschelde wrote:
+> 2011/2/11 George J. Walsh <gjwalsh at dscvcp.org>:
+>> Or maybe, with tongue in cheek, PackRack?
+>>
+>> I get a little weary of the app thing (too much of the Apple core in
+>> there!) A package is a pack and a rack is where one stores one's 
+>> packs.
+>>
+>> George
+>>
+>
+> I'm not too fond of the App-Whatever either, sounds too Apple-ish to 
+> me.
+> I don't really like terms such as Store or Market which evocate 
+> buying
+> stuff, I think the main purpose of Mageia-app-db will be to install
+> free/non-free but free of charge softwares.
+
+ Well, to me, the name market and all of it connotations is quite 
+ consumerist, and
+ doesn't really fit with the spirit of a community distribution, based 
+ on collaboration
+ more than pure commercial exchange as the various proposed name 
+ implies.
+
+ When samuel presented his idea, I was quite interested because it would 
+ allows me as a packager
+ to find who would be ok to test packages, to collaborate when i need 
+ confirmation for a bug
+ and so on.
+
+ But it seems that the vast majority of proposal are geared toward 
+ replicating the model
+ of Apple Appstore, Google market and others :
+ - app market, app box, software database, app center, Appworld, 
+ software portal.
+
+ Where is the collaboration in all of this ?
+-- 
+ Michael Scherer
+