I like the fact that a rat smells disaster a mile away (it is usually the first to jump ship).
+1 for incubating the rat. Martijn On 10/3/07, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm preparing http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RatProposal but i > thought i'd get the most controvercial and difficult aspect out of the > way: the name. > > i quite like the name RAT since it's a play on words a Release Audit > Tool which rats on releases. (i was also born in the year of the rat.) > so, i expect people to find a thousand good reasons why it shouldn't > be used. > > to get you all started, here are some links: > > http://www.cv.tu-berlin.de/rat/license.php > http://www.blackrat.biz/ > http://www.frtr.gov/decisionsupport/DST_Tools/RAT.htm > http://epa.instepsoftware.com/rat/ > http://wiki.wwiionline.com/index.php/Cornered_Rat_Software > http://neonrat.com/ > > yes, lots of people use rat in relation to software > > since RAT is so widely used, the name of the google project is arat. > i'm not sure why but the project is #3 at google and #2 at yahoo. so > aRAT is more plausable. there seems to be a place called arat in the > US and it seems to be a sur- and first-name. these probably weight > against this option. > > opinions? > > - robert > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Buy Wicket in Action: http://manning.com/dashorst Apache Wicket 1.3.0-beta3 is released Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0-beta3/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
