On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 20:43 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 03:10:59PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > If you want an application to be > > renamed, you'd better make sure that you can actually come up with > > a > > good name, and argue why it is an insurmountable problem to call > > the > > package "gnome-games-app" or similar in your distribution. > > > > gnome-games has been called gnome-games for 2 years. It uses the > > gnome- > > games list for communication, it uses the gnome-games bugzilla, it > > uses > > the gnome-games git repo. > > gnome-games is not hosted on gnome.org since a long time, the project > has moved from GitHub to gnome.org recently. I already talked to > Adrien > about the naming problem well before it was hosted on gnome.org. > > Is the gnome-games mailing list also for the other games in GNOME? If > not, the name is misleading. The same for the bugzilla product. Users > will start filing bugs on gnome-games because, hey, that's what they > installed on their system. > > Personally, when I develop a new software, I make sure the name that > I > choose isn't yet used or at least not widely used in the same domain. > To > have good results in a search engine, and find it easily in a package > manager. That's just common sense but I'm sure you can find it > written > somewhere in a list of good practices when writing free software. For > example: > http://producingoss.com/en/getting-started.html#choosing-a-name > > which is a recommended reading from the GNOME programming guidelines: > https://developer.gnome.org/programming-guidelines/stable/additional- > materials.html.en > > So in the first link you can read: > > “Is not the same as some other project's name, and does not > infringe on any trademarks. This is just good manners, as well as > good > legal sense. You don't want to create identity confusion. It's hard > enough to keep track of everything that's available on the Net > already, > without different things having the same name.” > > (side note, it's a bit ironic to see gnome.org as an example a bit > below > on the same page)
This is a discussion about why the use of the gnome-games name might or might not be legitimate. That isn't an answer to the questions I asked however. > Btw Michael Catanzaro is a member of the release team. In GNOME > module > maintainers have a lot of freedom, but maybe it is a good idea to > know > the opinion of the release team, since it's the team responsible for > what GNOME ships. gnome-games (the new one) is not part of GNOME core > though. Would be great if you, or somebody else, could answer my questions. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
