Re: release names after Toy Story
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:30:03PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote:
> This weekend I spent some time watching DVD's of the animated series ReBoot
> and it struck me this would be the perfect source for release names after Toy
> Story. Like TS and TS2, ReBoot is all digitally animated. The entire series
> takes place in a kind of virtual reality inside a computer. The characters
> are all various aspects of computer programs or processes. Their lives are a
> continuing saga of conflict with viral invaders and occasional onslaughts by
> the mysterious User. The dialog is rife with computer puns. It seems like a
> perfect fit to me.
I don't think it's a good idea to use identifiers from one domain to
refer to things in a nearby domain. Witness the unpleasantness of having
a package named 'woody' in testing. Consider how bad it sounded when a
machine named after an expired developer had hardware problems.
'Reboot' is a bad source exactly because it has too much to do with
computers.
I think we have another 15 years of names left in TS{,2}. Next is
'Sarge', right? 'Etch'?
- chad
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