Le jeudi 10 février 2011 23:58:12, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : > As Marcello pointed out, mageia-app-db is not the best name we can find for > our application database. > > So let's try to find one :) > > Some constraints : > - preferably a name without "Mageia" in it. Why ? Because this tool could > be used for various distributions. Of course, the Mageia instance will > have Mageia's logo and name on it (and we are creating it as a part of the > Mageia project), but if someday another distribution wants to use it, it > will feel weird to have Mageia in the application name. In fact, I already > plan to run instances of the application for opensuse, fedora and mandriva > (no, nobody asked me to do it, but it will be easy to do, and this will > help me keep in mind that the application must not entirely depend on > distribution specific stuff, or only via modules/plugins). > - a name with a meaning carrying at least some part of the goals of the > application, but without forgetting that it's still an application (and > packages) database. > > Some people have already proposed : > > Mageia Find Out > Mageia Application Database/Discovery/Foundry > Mageia Application Warehouse/Mall/Store/Shop > Mageia - Explore Applications > Mageia - World of Applications > > But other suggestions are still welcome. >
There were already various interesting proposals, but they all revolve more or less around the "app store" concept, whereas mageia-app-db is not only that : it's also meant to help communication betwenn users, testers and packagers (mainly via testing requests / backports requests, at first). Do you think we can add this to the reflexion ? As a reminder, here is the full record of goals : http://mageia-app-db.tuxette.fr/projects/mageia-app-db/wiki/NeedsAndFunctionalities Best regards Samuel
