> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Burrell Donkin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 20 November 2011 5:44 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Top Level Project Name > > On 11/19/11 19:07, Gavin McDonald wrote: > > <snip> > > > I am -0 on changing the name. RAT was simple name and meant what the > > product does. > > Those qualities make it more difficult from a trademark perspective... > > > (And by now, folks know what it means to produce a 'Rat Report' , > > asking folks to produce a Creadur Report rolls off the tongue less.) > > "Apache Rat" is fine as a product name. There's no need to change that nor > stop talking about rat reports. > > "Creadur" would just be the top level project name, with tentacles, whisker, > rat and so on as different products. May end up releasing some "creadur" > stuff to keep Maven happy. > > > If words like 'Apple' and 'Windows' can be tm'd I don't see why Rat > > should be any different. > > Trademark law is quite unlike copyright. Apple and Microsoft have big > marketing budgets to build and defend their trademarks. Apache doesn't. > > > But I don't want to hold up the graduation so above are just thoughts > > I won't do anything about. > > Thanks
Ok so to not hold up a graduation means actually doing something about graduating. I've poured through docs and I think we are done at this point, the IPMC can point out anything else rather than us look for faults. But now we have this thing called a project rename to deal with. So: 1. Create a [VOTE] thread someone please to rename the project to creadur. 2. Vote to graduate. 3. Take that vote to the IPMC. 4. Elect a chair. 5. Do the move. I am not going to do 1. so if someone can kindly get that done. I will happily create the vote for 2. I will happily do 3. I will happily call a vote for who becomes chair, though I'd rather RBL or Stefan just get it. (It's going to be one of them) I will happily as part of RAT and as part of INFRA perform much of the move to TLP There are zero excuses now, let's get out of here :) Gav... > > Robert
