From owner-freebsd-binup Sun Oct 28 21:16:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658AD37B408; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:16:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9T5G5a101154; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 00:16:05 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3546.1004327493@winston.freebsd.org> References: <3546.1004327493@winston.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 00:16:02 -0500 To: Jordan Hubbard , The Anarcat From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: current project steps Cc: Eric Melville , Josef Karthauser , "Simon L. Nielsen" , binup@FreeBSD.ORG, libh@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander Langer Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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