[Uml-devel] naming issues

[P. Fleury]

Yves de Champlain wrote:

> I think Umbrello is really a nice name.  The problem is, admist the 
> thousands of software, is it better to have a nice name or a more 
> descriptive one ?  It is true also that uml-modeller is not much 
> better than unified-uml or uml-languager.  That depends on how do 
> poeple find out about software.  They seem sometimes easier to code 
> than to find !!!  OK, don't take all this too seriously but a little 
> class is never too much.  What about Umbrello-uml or Uml-Umbrello ?

If we look at other projects, which seem successful, I think that a nice 
name, even if not too descriptive, is better (look at Jakarta project 
names: oro, cactus, james, ant, etc.). However, we have to make sure 
that people can find very easily the information about what it is, which 
means getting the domain in the .org namespace (to find it quickly), and 
have a 1-2 sentence description of what this software does on the 
greeting page (to get an immediate feedback from the search). Having the 
domain seems to make it appear higher on the list on Google too, I 
think. For the greeting page info, the uml.sf.net is already there and 
contains that info:-)

And... I like Umbrello too :-) [Does it mean anything in any language?]

--Pascal