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

[Samuel Verschelde]

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