Bug#823141: [ricli85@gmail.com: Re: RFP: timeline -- An application to show events on a timeline]]
Word from upstream on package naming:
----- Forwarded message from Rickard Lindberg <ricli85@gmail.com> -----
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823141
> >
> > One problem is that "timeline" is way to generic as a package
> > name. Would you think naming it "thetimelineproj" would fit
> > your vision ?
>
> I agree that timeline is a too generic name. (The Fedora package is
> actually called 'timeline', but that is not very descriptive.)
>
> The name 'thetimelineproj' was chosen (I think) because timeline was
> already taken of Sourceforge. It is not really any more descriptive, but a
> bit more unique.
>
> I've thought about coming up with an entirely new name. It feels natural
> that the name refers to the vision. But our vision is not clearly written
> down anywhere. Perhaps we need to think about this and do some marketing :-)
>
> I guess that thetimelineproj is fine for now as a package name. Then if we
> change name in the future, we can perhaps also get packages to change the
> name.
>
> /Rickard
----- End forwarded message -----
--
GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net
E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
Reply to: