What's in a name?

[Stephen Gallagher]

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Now that we've got a pretty good idea of what the Role API needs to
look like, we need to start putting together the daemon to control it.
Any good open-source project needs a name, so here's where you get to
make your recommendations :)

So far, I've got:
 * "RoleD" - Keeping with a recent theme in Fedora
 * "thespian" - Synonym for actor/actress, or "someone who plays
multiple roles"

What's your best idea?

Once we come up with a name, I'll set up a Fedora Hosted project to
track it. Let's get as many suggestions as we can by Tuesday's WG
meeting and then select it there.
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[Reindl Harald]

Am 13.06.2014 19:09, schrieb Stephen Gallagher:
>  Now that we've got a pretty good idea of what the Role API needs
> to
>  look like, we need to start putting together the daemon to control it.
>  Any good open-source project needs a name, so here's where you get to
>  make your recommendations :)
>  
>  So far, I've got:
>   * "RoleD" - Keeping with a recent theme in Fedora
>   * "thespian" - Synonym for actor/actress, or "someone who plays
>  multiple roles"
>  
>  What's your best idea? 
RoleD - a name should be desciptive and not an acronym
for insiders - names like "thespian" are not helpful
except for a few insiders

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 13 June 2014 11:12, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net&gt; wrote:

>  Am 13.06.2014 19:09, schrieb Stephen Gallagher:
>  > Now that we've got a pretty good idea of what the Role API needs to
>  > look like, we need to start putting together the daemon to control it.
>  > Any good open-source project needs a name, so here's where you get to
>  > make your recommendations :)
>  >
>  > So far, I've got:
>  >  * "RoleD" - Keeping with a recent theme in Fedora
>  >  * "thespian" - Synonym for actor/actress, or "someone who plays
>  > multiple roles"
>  >
>  > What's your best idea?
>
>  RoleD - a name should be desciptive and not an acronym
>  for insiders - names like "thespian" are not helpful
>  except for a few insiders
>  
It also has a better chance of getting adopted by other OS's if its a bit
generic.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.

[Andrew Price]

On 13/06/14 19:55, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>  On 13 June 2014 11:12, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net&gt;
> wrote:
> > Am 13.06.2014 19:09, schrieb Stephen Gallagher:
> >> Now that we've got a pretty good idea of what the Role API needs to
> >> look like, we need to start putting together the daemon to control it.
> >> Any good open-source project needs a name, so here's where you get to
> >> make your recommendations :)
> >>
> >> So far, I've got:
> >>   * "RoleD" - Keeping with a recent theme in Fedora
> >>   * "thespian" - Synonym for actor/actress, or "someone who plays
> >> multiple roles"
> >>
> >> What's your best idea?
> >
> > RoleD - a name should be desciptive and not an acronym
> > for insiders - names like "thespian" are not helpful
> > except for a few insiders
> >
>
>  It also has a better chance of getting adopted by other OS's if its a bit
>  generic. 
Agreed with all of the above. I prefer roled (no caps) fwiw, at least 
for the program/process name, though I understand the desire to 
disambiguate it using caps (it's how I justified the caps in my irc 
handle after all, though I often wish I hadn't...).

Cheers,
AndyP

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 13:09 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>  Now that we've got a pretty good idea of what the Role API needs
> to
>  look like, we need to start putting together the daemon to control it.
>  Any good open-source project needs a name, so here's where you get to
>  make your recommendations :)
>  
>  So far, I've got:
>   * "RoleD" - Keeping with a recent theme in Fedora
>   * "thespian" - Synonym for actor/actress, or "someone who plays
>  multiple roles"
>  
>  What's your best idea?
>  
>  Once we come up with a name, I'll set up a Fedora Hosted project to
>  track it. Let's get as many suggestions as we can by Tuesday's WG
>  meeting and then select it there. 
As an alternative also Rolekit, Rolemgr, RoleManager ?

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 14 June 2014 12:50, Simo Sorce <simo(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 13:09 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>  > Now that we've got a pretty good idea of what the Role API needs to
>  > look like, we need to start putting together the daemon to control it.
>  > Any good open-source project needs a name, so here's where you get to
>  > make your recommendations :)
>  >
>  > So far, I've got:
>  >  * "RoleD" - Keeping with a recent theme in Fedora
>  >  * "thespian" - Synonym for actor/actress, or "someone who plays
>  > multiple roles"
>  >
>  > What's your best idea?
>  >
>  > Once we come up with a name, I'll set up a Fedora Hosted project to
>  > track it. Let's get as many suggestions as we can by Tuesday's WG
>  > meeting and then select it there.
>
>  As an alternative also Rolekit, Rolemgr, RoleManager ?
>  
If this is going to be sent to desktop.org or other OS's for adoption then
I might go with RoleKit (I have run into enough people who get miffed if a
kit isn't cross platform to figure it is considered a sort of trade term
for that.) If not RoleManager would be better as it covers what it is
supposed to do.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.