Re: Naming issue (Was: Need help to move Alexandria)

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

ons 2005-03-30 klockan 22:30 +0200 skrev Laurent Sansonetti:
[...]
> > > 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).
> > 
> > If you can consider a name change, then I think it's the best option. In
> > my experience, when there's a conflicting name, the situation doesn't
> > improve over time, and the more used the name gets, the more difficult
> > it gets to change. A conflicting name can easily "stick" and cause more
> > problems over time than one would initially expect.
> > 
> > On the other hand, we probably do not want the naming issue to
> > completely block the use of gnome.org resources for development. In my
> > opinion, you can go ahead and import this piece of software into
> > cvs.gnome.org -- we can always rename the cvs module later should we
> > need to do that. Of course, if you can think of a better name before you
> > import it, that's the preferrable option.
> 
> I have discussed this with the other maintainer and we decided to not
> change the project name until the 1.0.0 release (which could arrive the
> next year).
> 
> In the meantime we believe it is better to keep the current name, to not
> confuse the existing user base (which is growing).

Ok.


> > Mailing lists is another matter -- they are not easily renamed. If
> > possible, we should probably wait with creating any mailing lists until
> > the naming issue is completely resolved, in my opinion.
> 
> We can keep the existing mailing lists on rubyforge.org.  I think it is
> better anyway, because the users would not have to re-subscribe again.
> 
> I would be happy to move Alexandria in the GNOME CVS nevertheless.
> Would it be possible to keep the existing CVS history?

Yes. Then we need access to a tarball with the complete previous CVS
repository (i.e. CVS' own files included). If you can assemble or get
hold of such a tarball, please put it on a web page where we can
download it, and send the URL to cvsmaster gnome org  Then we can import
it to cvs.gnome.org, with CVS history preserved.


Christian