On Oct 23, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RatProposal has been stable for a
while now so i'd like to throw it open to final scrutiny before i call
for a VOTE. (please don't vote yet ;-)
the name "RAT" has been discussed previously - see
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/
200710.mbox/%
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RAT is a good name and popular but i'm still a little concerned that
there are existing open source projects named RAT as well as
commercial software containing RAT in their name. Apache aRAT has the
advantage of being unused but the disadvantage of being a common name
in some other languages. if anyone strongly disagrees with the
consensus that RAT is ok and prefers aRAT please jump in now.
Looks good to me.
As a RAT user, I look forward to improved RAT capabilities. There's
the other side of the coin which I think communities need help with
-- and that's tools to help simplify the building of legally
compliant distributions. There's been some work with the maven-remote-
resources-plugin, but that's fodder for another conversation...
I like the name RAT.
Can anybody give me guidance on how unique names need to be? For
instance there's currently a vote to accept 'Apache Composer'. A
simple search on 'composer open source' turns up a number of open
source projects with 'composer' in their name (Violet Composer,
Mozilla Composer, Eclipse EPF Composer). Should I have been more
diligent in reviewing the Composer proposal? By comparison, RAT looks
more unique...
--kevan
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