Naming issue (Was: Need help to move Alexandria)

[Laurent Sansonetti <lrz gnome org>]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:32, Ross Golder wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 19:32 +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> > fre 2004-07-30 klockan 11.11 skrev Laurent Sansonetti:
> 
> > > Also, I would like to ask for a general mailing list
> > > (alexandria-list gnome org sounds good),
> > 
> > Should be possible. I don't have the time to fix this myself this week
> > though.
> > 
> 
> I can do this, if required. Probably better to wait a bit first to be
> sure there are no firm objections or changes of mind regarding the
> project name. Here are a couple of other software projects I turned up
> with the same name on Google:
> 
> http://www.goalexandria.com/
> http://www.gnu.org/software/alexandria/lsm2003/html/slide_4.html
> http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/public-documents/proposal/node5.html
> 

Mmh, I wasn't aware of the naming issue...

I found another project with the same name:

http://jakarta.apache.org/alexandria/

If it's really problematic we can consider a name change.  Alexandria
seems to be already used by several free software projects.  But AFAIK
Alexandria isn't used by the Debian, Mandrake and FreeBSD packaging
system yet (I believe it's the same case for Redhat/Fedora as well).

We already have official Mandrake packages, and IIRC our Debian packages
are on the way to be approved in the official repository.

What should we do?

Have a nice week-end,

--
Laurent