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

Olav Dahlum odahlum at gmail.com
Mon Feb 14 05:01:14 CET 2011


On 13/02/11 02:15, Kristoffer Grundström wrote:
> MagicADB would be more appropiate.
> 
> 2011/2/13 Dale Huckeby <spock at evansville.net>
> 
>> 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 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 ?
>>>
>>
>> How about MagicAp, then?
>>
>> Dale Huckeby
> 

Or just keep it simple: "Mageia Application Database" - <insert
slogan/vision here>

-Olav


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