Hello, a couple of days ago I wrote some code that, following the established naming practices of the project I was working on, ended up looking quite surreal: /// Format a db::Format value to a string std::string format_format(Format format); ... fprintf(out, "Format: %s\n", format_format(format()).c_str()); As soon as that was written I contacted some of my coworkers asking for a review and their opinion, because although it all seemed to make sense, I could understand those code lines could weird someone out. I couple of days later (this morning), I looked at the recent packages that entered testing, and I got weirded out. Seriously, people? Package: substance-flamingo Description: Substance Flamingo plugin The goal of this project is to provide a consistent apperance for Flamingo components (see libflamingo-java) under the substance Substance (see substance) look-and-feel. This requires a JDK version 5.0+. I heard you like flamingo substance, so I put Flamingo flamingoes in your substance Substance so you can substance-flamingo while you flamingo your Substance! Then, OpenStack packages. Which of these are actual openstack things? Oslo, Tataouine, Magnum, Rump, Keystone, Mistral, Glance, Sahara, Schinkenzwiebelmettwurst, Ceilometer, Fuel, Shade, Antani, Congress, Barbican, Taskflow, Tosca, Shaft, Trove, Brazier, Mellanox, Manila, Tripleo, Castellan, Murano, Hoverboard, Ironic, Swift, Tuskar, Capacitor, Ember, Perth, Nova, Inculo, Arista, Neutron, Rally, Designate, Cinder, Shotgun, Kulfi, Kofte, Senlin, Braciola, Mocha, Lido, Horizon, Zaqar, Heat, Calippo. That wins the second place in my personal "let's spam the package namespace with meaningless names" rank. The first is the research community, who at least have the excuse that they can synthetize all sorts of substances: asdftool - Command line tool to manipulate ASDF scientific data files circlator - circularize genome assemblies seer - genomic sequence element (kmer) enrichment analysis dindel - determines indel calls from short-read data spaced - alignment-free sequence comparison using spaced words stacks - pipeline for building loci from short-read DNA sequences surankco - Supervised Ranking of Contigs in de novo Assemblies These are some new entries. I like the name asdftool, it gives me the idea of someone going "we have so many nonsense names that we could just as well name this one by bashing randomly on the keyboard". Circlator I'm sure means something in Plukanian[1]. "seer" is yet another step on the slippery slope that will one day give us a package called "doer". "dindel" sounds like a Bavarian localisation package. "spaced" is how I feel going through those names. "Stacks" feels like a tease towards the OpenStack people, like sticking the middle finger and yelling "you are NEVER going to catch up!". Surankco sounds to me like some character out of One Punch Man, Actually, if you are looking for a name for a new videogame or comic book character, just run: grep -E 'field::(biology|chemistry|medicine)' /var/lib/debtags/package-tags|sed -re 's/:.+//'|sort -u|less "And in the next match at the Circos Martial Arts Tournament, we have Biosquid, who just won the match against Epigrass, facing Muscle, the most promising disciple of Abyss and Clustal" Let's take this package: python-shotgun/testing,testing 0.1.0+2016.12.30.git.0682f20c42-1 all Create and save Fuel diagnostic snapshots I thought it was about shooting yourself in the foot, by connecting an untested tool you just saw on Hacker News to the OBD-II port of your car. Nope: it's some openstack thing with a description made of 11 lines of enterprise nonsense and two lines of "it reads yaml, collects log files and stuff, and helps diagnose stuff". Please at least make sure that all the openstack packages have suite::openstack tags assigned, and then let's figure out how to have apt run some recipes to make some tags available in the package short descriptions, so that it can show like this on "apt search": python-shotgun/testing,testing 0.1.0+2016.12.30.git.0682f20c42-1 all [openstack] Create and save Fuel diagnostic snapshots Enrico in a "you're all evidently gone mad and probably dangerous" sunday morning mood [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin-dza-dza!#Plukanian_language -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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