On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:09 +0100, Rémi Verschelde wrote:
2011/2/11 George J. Walsh <gjwalsh@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 ?