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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] A name for mageia-app-db</H1>
<B>Samuel Verschelde</B>
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Le vendredi 11 février 2011 11:53:28, Michael Scherer a écrit :
><i> Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 23:58 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
</I>><i> > As Marcello pointed out, mageia-app-db is not the best name we can find
</I>><i> > for our application database.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > So let's try to find one :)
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Some constraints :
</I>><i> > - preferably a name without "Mageia" in it. Why ? Because this tool could
</I>><i> > be used for various distributions. Of course, the Mageia instance will
</I>><i> > have Mageia's logo and name on it (and we are creating it as a part of
</I>><i> > the Mageia project), but if someday another distribution wants to use it,
</I>><i> > it will feel weird to have Mageia in the application name. In fact, I
</I>><i> > already plan to run instances of the application for opensuse, fedora and
</I>><i> > mandriva (no, nobody asked me to do it, but it will be easy to do, and
</I>><i> > this will help me keep in mind that the application must not entirely
</I>><i> > depend on distribution specific stuff, or only via modules/plugins).
</I>><i> > - a name with a meaning carrying at least some part of the goals of the
</I>><i> > application, but without forgetting that it's still an application (and
</I>><i> > packages) database.
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</I>><i> What about adding :
</I>><i> - a name that could inspire a logo
</I>><i> - a name that is not trademarked
</I>><i> - a name that is not already used on freshmeat nor as a package on the
</I>><i> major distro
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Indeed, that was kind of implicit, but better saying it loud :)
Samuel
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