Hi,
of course both of you are right.
So let's just start doing some work and see where it leads as with the
community.
Julian
Am 04.03.19, 10:49 schrieb "Nuwan Jayawardene" <nsga...@gmail.com>:
Hi Julian,
I agree with Christofer.
But perhaps we could add a suffix to the name if absolutely necessary. It
doesn't take away the already known title and at the same time signals a
new direction.
Regards
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 2:56 PM Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> Well even if it is possible to vote on changing a name, I would strongly
> suggest to reconsider doing so.
> Here the reasons:
>
> Changing the name would require us to:
> - Update all Maven coordinates
> - Update all documentation
> - Update all packages in the project
> - Rename/Recreate all code repos and mirrors
> - Rename/Recreate all mailinglists
> - Rename/Recreate Jira Project
> - Rename/Recreate Confluence Project
> - Rename/Recreate Jenkins Jobs
> - Re-Do a Podling-Name-Search
>
> And another thing ... Edgent started as "Quarks" but was already renamed
> once in the past. I don’t think it's a great idea to do this again.
>
> And I have to admit that I quite like the name as it fits perfectly for a
> platform for Edge computing.
>
> Chris
>
> Am 04.03.19, 09:46 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <
> j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> there is another question in my mind about the edgent project.
> As most of you may know, we are currently starting to “revive” the
> project with a totally new team, as the old community somehow went lost
(I
> think there was a big engagement of IBM which was drastically reduced,
this
> may be one of the reasons).
>
> So if we achieve to grow the community again and revive the project
> with some ideas I ask myself if it would not be good to discuss of the
> name. As this name was chosen by the “former” (P)PMC with their ideas and
> use cases they had in mind I wonder if it is possible for a podling to
> change its name?
> If this is theoretically possible, I would give us some months to see
> how we proceed and if we have the impression that we have a vital
community
> growing, then I would start a formal vote for that and also start
> discussion about new names.
>
> Perhaps our Mentors Chris and Justin can comment on that?
>
> Thanks
> Julian
>
>
>
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