Renaming Nepomuk-KDE to "Braid"
David Faure
faure at kde.org
Tue Jun 5 16:39:27 BST 2007
On Monday 04 June 2007, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> Monday 04 June 2007 skrev Allen Winter:
> > On Sunday 03 June 2007 4:55:46 am Sebastian TrĂ¼g wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > on the nepomuk-kde list we had a little discussion about a new name for
> > > Nepomuk-KDE. The result was "Braid" with the meaning of "interwoven
> > > information" and a reference to GEB [1].
> > >
> > > This would mean that some parts would be renamed. I propose the
> > > following:
> >
> > I think I object.
> > Can this wait for the 4.1 release?
> >
> > I can't see a good technical reason to do this.
> > But maybe I'm missing something.
>
> Well, if you really want to get technical about it, i guess one could call
> on the whole refactoring thing - automatically refactoring everything later
> when we /know/ it'll change names anyway seems a little potentially breaky to
> me, so that it would be better to get it done faster...
>
> However, more mindshare oriented arguments would be that you'd preferably
> want to avoid the confusion that renaming Rendezvous to Bonjour caused Apple
> when they did that. We would really want people to know and remember the name
> from the start.
Yeah, let's get it done, it's now or never, and it shouldn't take long.
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