Re: Blends naming in the Debian installer

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Hi Paul and all,

Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> --> we should have better menu names here, which help a person who is
>> new to Debian to understand what is going on here.
>
> Agreed, the codenames we use for our projects shouldn't be exposed to
> first time users, instead we should use terms used by the targets of
> each blend to describe themselves and their peers.

I agree with your proposal and would change the naming:

> [ ] Special tasks
> [ ] ... astronomy
> [ ] ... education
> [ ] ... medicine
          life sciences and medicine
> [ ] ... geography
> [ ] ... hamradio
          amateur radio (?)
> [ ] ... gaming and fun
> [ ] ... for kids

We *could* still put the Blends names there as well:

[ ] Special tasks
[ ] ... astronomy (Debian Astro)
[ ] ... chemistry (DebiChem)
[ ] ... education (Debian Edu)
[ ] ... life sciences and medicine (DebianMed)
[ ] ... geographical information systems (Debian GIS)
[ ] ... amateur radio (Hamradio)
[ ] ... gaming and fun (Debian Games)
[ ] ... multimedia (DebianMultimedia)
[ ] ... for kids (Debian Junior)

so that people explicitely interested in a blend could find it; however
I am not sure if this would not be again confusing.

I would then however input for the not-so-simple blends:

Debian Accessibility, Debian EzGo

and for those who are not on the list yet as well :-)

We should also do an opt-in at some point; I don't want to force any
Blend to appear in the installer.

Best regards

Ole