Grant is right. Others were making the point about Debian. I was making a point about it being an overly generic English word. The former may be a short term problem, the latter a very long term one. If changing the name is such a problem (work) then...
Otis P.S. I, too, like the name Etch, it's just that it's an English word, plus there are several other products with "Etch" in their name. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Friday, August 8, 2008 6:28:23 AM > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Etch > > > On Aug 8, 2008, at 4:28 AM, James Dixson (jadixson) wrote: > > > Simple put: a name change is work. Before I can accept the need to do > > work, I want to clearly understand the benefits of doing it. > > > > Etch, while new to open-source, does have some awareness in a > > technical > > community ( http://developer.cisco.com/web/cuae ). We have been > > publicly > > pitching and distributing etch in our community for several months > > now. > > People have been using the technology and for our current community > > Etch > > != Debian. Granted, a couple of months is a short amount of time, > > but it > > is something. Imposing a name change on our current community, with > > the > > reasoning that the future community, would be unable to differentiate > > between "Apache Etch" and the etch release Debian, would be > > disruptive. > > I don't think the argument is necessarily that the future community > can't distinguish between Apache Etch and Debian, I think the argument > is that the future community won't be able to find it, period, which > means the future community may well be smaller than it would be w/ a > more distinctive name. > > Put it this way, you search for Hadoop, the top 10 on Google is all > Apache Hadoop. You search for Etch and you will be lucky to crack the > top 10, me thinks, but who knows maybe you'll get enough rank to > displace the Etch-a-Sketch and it will be a non-issue. > > Of course, the work thing I understand, too, although it seems like a > global search and replace wouldn't be that bad. You also certainly > could change it over time, even after being accepted into incubation, > I think, just as long as it's done before first release. > > FWIW, I like the name Etch :-) > > -Grant > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
