Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 00:16:02 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> Cc: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.ORG>, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk>, binup@FreeBSD.ORG, libh@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Subject: Re: current project steps Message-ID: <p05101008b802959778ba@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3546.1004327493@winston.freebsd.org> References: <3546.1004327493@winston.freebsd.org>
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At 7:51 PM -0800 10/28/01, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >1. Names that are cool but don't mean anything. Examples: > Orion > Wolf-pack These two imply "a group of things" (to me at least), and that might be appropriate. >2. Names that are clear attempts to find first a cool acronym and > then back-fill it with some contrived expansion. Examples: > > ICE - Installer Coded Encapsulation > ENCORE - Encapsulated Net-Correct Ordered Registration Environment > CHOMP - Centralized HOst Mandated Packaging SCAT - Simple Cool Admin Tools (or maybe even scatpack, which sounds like ratpack) (this comes from a project I had called "scatters" - "simple cool admin tool to everywhere run something") -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message
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