I'm confused... what is the need for a new name? The only place where there is a conflict is in the top level svn tree...
What about something general like: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev or https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/project ryan On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Steven A Rowe <sar...@syr.edu> wrote: > Now that Solr and Lucene live in the same space, there has been an on-going > debate about what to call the merged entity. > > The names being mulled at this point include (variously sized) snippets of > both Lucene's and Solr's names, and include LuSolr, Solcene, etc. (my current > personal favorites along these lines: Sorlusr :) ). > > My guess is that Lucene partisans would like to see Solr just become a > product (along with the Lucene java library) of the Lucene project. Judging > from suggestions coming from Solr partisans, though, I don't think this will > fly. > > So I think an entirely new name is needed for the merged project. Lucene and > Solr would remain the product names of this newly named merged project. > > Along these lines, search.apache.org has been brought up a couple of times > recently on the #lucene IRC channel. However (with all due respect to > what-happens-on-#lucene-stays-on-#lucene (TM) ), Grant wrote in response to > one of these suggestions this morning: > > prob. is "Search" is not a brand > ASF likes names > > So in the spirit of a real name (i.e., an abstract symbol), I propose > "Srrrch" (riffing off of "Riot Grrrls" and Solr's penchant for vowel > droppings).... Okay, not really. > > I do have one idea, though: thinking about the icons for Lucene (looks to me > like the font used on 50's automobile brand logos) and Solr (a sun): car+sun > => convertible => "Ragtop". Fun, short, abstract, apolitical. Solr's and > Lucene's icons could be easily embedded in a Ragtop logo. > > Steve > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
