The project announced that it is changing its name this fall. We are still in 
the process of doing this.

See http://blog.bro.org/2017/10/a-new-name-for-bro-project.html

There was also a note in early January noting that the project was seeking 
outside help from a branding firm, and so there are delays to the original 
schedule. That was on the main Bro list.

On Mar 9, 2018, at 12:03 AM, Vitaly Repin 
<vital...@seed4.me<mailto:vital...@seed4.me>> wrote:

Hello,

I would like to bring your attention to one strange and extremely unexpected 
difficulty I faced
while trying to include user agent parser for bro I have developed (plugin: 
https://github.com/vitalyrepin/uap-bro<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_vitalyrepin_uap-2Dbro&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=LLPfgzSVOaTR78OVz-AYCA9XhExBz0EDuOOHjvBypQE&m=jSxpxFbu6Mia_qAkE16UwzAhWPUMZKfZfH2FcH5xAPY&s=b_GX3guD0Uf4EPZszppn3S6m9sL9lVVAoYBNjXXEDSQ&e=>
 ) into the list of uap implementations 
https://github.com/ua-parser<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_ua-2Dparser&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=LLPfgzSVOaTR78OVz-AYCA9XhExBz0EDuOOHjvBypQE&m=jSxpxFbu6Mia_qAkE16UwzAhWPUMZKfZfH2FcH5xAPY&s=u3gl3kMUAJPdnow-1k3g_zz_mKL05F_O-ghwkpOBHnY&e=>

The request I have made has been rejected: 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ua-parser/nJEc6SZIxyU<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__groups.google.com_forum_-23-21topic_ua-2Dparser_nJEc6SZIxyU&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=LLPfgzSVOaTR78OVz-AYCA9XhExBz0EDuOOHjvBypQE&m=jSxpxFbu6Mia_qAkE16UwzAhWPUMZKfZfH2FcH5xAPY&s=6WuRvIsz3F0Py7qLOcRpRggm4HTZbG6W8yweFbOrffI&e=>

The reason:

/quote begin/

While I understand that you're not responsible for the unfortunate name of the 
Bro language, and while it might be that the name references an Orwellian "Big 
Brother" more than it refers to bro culture, I still can't get behind including 
or linking to a project in a language that has such a non-inclusive name.

That obviously sucks for the effort you've put into this project, and sucks for 
Bro users that won't be able to find easily. But overall, it sucks even more 
for women who feel excluded from programming because of such poor naming 
choices.

Of course, I’ll happily include your project if the programming language 
changes name.
/quote end/

It sounded very weird for me originally. But I have googled for "bro" and "non 
inclusive" and found this discussion: 
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121268<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__news.ycombinator.com_item-3Fid-3D7121268&d=DwMFaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=LLPfgzSVOaTR78OVz-AYCA9XhExBz0EDuOOHjvBypQE&m=jSxpxFbu6Mia_qAkE16UwzAhWPUMZKfZfH2FcH5xAPY&s=cStiq17-bjyIwJ7t1cSWZj0R2PVobwZpyfFnPzYzrWs&e=>

Have anybody faced this problem before? Has it been discussed in any way in the 
bro community?

I think it might be a good idea to have at least an article with explanation of 
the origins of the "bro" name and the stand towards inclusiveness. (Not sure it 
will help with ua-parser project, however).

Thanks!
P.S. Sorry for the partial mail sent  a couple of minutes ago.
--
WBR & WBW, Vitaly
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