What we are concerned with is whether the name clashes with other projects or have other potential branding issues. Whether it means something funny in $language, who cares... :)
I think Weex is just fine. Let's move on. With regards, Daniel. On 11/22/2016 02:44 PM, Emilian Bold wrote: > Not long ago we had a thread here about English being the work language on > Apache. > > We can't expect projects to check (and change) their name based on such > loose criteria. > > I bet a lot of names come "close" to some slang word in some world language. > > Bertrand's remark seems reasonable to me: > >> the comments in this thread should be considered > friendly advice, nothing more. > > So there is no incubation-impacting decision to be made here. > > În mar., 22 nov. 2016 la 15:03 Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> > a scris: > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> How can the project name be a problem when "weex" sounds to me like the >> very common English word *weeks*? > > Depends on the language. In german, it's close to a slang word for > "masturbation", Not sufficiently close, IMO, to cause problems, but > others may have a different point of view. > > > Jochen > > -- > The next time you hear: "Don't reinvent the wheel!" > > http://www.keystonedevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/evolution-of-the-wheel-300x85.jpg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
