I concur that the change will appear somewhat abrupt to those who do not follow things closely, and will confuse many.
The re-branding to avoid the use of "EMC" and "EMC2" may be necessary, but the obliteration of "Enhanced Machine Controller" is not, in my opinion, necessary or desirable at this time. A reference on the home page that equates LinuxCNC with Enhanced Machine Controller would seem desirable to mitigate the impact of the change. Regards, Steve Stallings > -----Original Message----- > From: Kent A. Reed [mailto:knbr...@erols.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:30 PM > To: EMC developers > Subject: [Emc-developers] Rebranding EMC2 to LinuxCNC > > Gentle persons: > > With Chris' announcement to the emc-users list concerning the > agreement > between EMC Corp and the Board of Directors a practical > question arises. > > Chris' message says everything will be changed now, at v2.5.0. > > Replacing instances of EMC and EMC2 on the website and wiki > seems pretty > trivial compared to making changes to the code base. It's one > thing to > change the external manifestations like prompts and splash > screens. It's > another to contemplate mass changes of all the internal instances of > [eE][mM][cC]2? (or some such regular expression) in the code. > > It would seem to me that while it is possible to change the v2.5 code > base and v2.5 documentation simultaneously, it would be more > conservative to change the code base first and make sure the docs are > consistent. > > Has a plan emerged for managing the change process? > > Just my 2 cents worth. > > Regards, > Kent > > PS - I see the home page at www.linuxcnc.org has already been > completely > changed. I think it does the CNC community a disservice not > to give some > indication right up front that this rebranding is occurring---as of > certain date and certain version. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft > developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, > CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
