When reviewing the incubator proposal for this I recall someone from IPMC mention a project from Mozilla called 'Aria' and this project choosing a different name. Arthur had then suggested 'AriaTosca' and we went ahead with that name when setting up this podling.
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:56 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > All, > > I'm following up on this item. There were previous discussion points about > renaming the JIRA instance from ARIATOSCA to ARIA. I've point out to the > project in the past that the rename is meant to be a thorough process - all > podling resources should be named consistently. > > If its decided to rename fro ARIATOSCA to ARIA, the following changes would > be involved: > > - New JIRA project ARIA created. No data retained. > - Git repos renamed from incubator-ariatosca to incubator-aria > - Maling lists renamed from @ariatosca.incubator.apache.org to @ > aria.incubator.apache.org > > I'm sure there are other resources as well. The point is that within the > ASF, we strive for consistency (the whole convention over configuration > argument). You will find two projects (that I can think of) that break > this mold - and they break it really well. AMQ and CMDA always require > special handling. CMDA is purely too long of a name > (climatemodeldatanalyzer), and AMQ was simply the first JIRA project. > > If the podling chooses to rename itself, I don't have a personal opinion. > I will point out that the name ARIA is not specially unique and wouldn't be > something we could get a trademark on. Its not that easy to defend. > ARIATOSCA is very unique and can be defended as a trademark. > > John >
