BUMP! http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/47468793/namechange
This is rather important folks, and silence is considered assent in Apache land, but given the activity we saw in Jira I think ppl do have strong feelings here. The name is foundational important to work going forward so we need to resolve this! On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: > As mentioned by Jukka, the issue tracker is a bad place for discussion > so I'm starting this thread to discuss possible name changes. > > So, the name Callback comes with problems. Its generic. Its common in > JS programming. (Which is why we liked it, btw.) > > Things w/ the name "phone" are out. We support tablets and all sorts > of weird devices are in the future. Things with the name "gap" are > out. There has been legal issues and its not something Apache wants to > inherit. > > We brainstormed a HUGE list before proposing Callback. Frankly, I > still like Callback and haven't been compelled by arguments I've heard > so far against it. But lets go for it with some gusto here and then we > can whittle that list down (perhaps at the Apache Con?) and put that > shortlist to a vote. > > For convenience, I've stared a wiki page instead of a long list of > replies ... lets use that page to collect ideas and this thread to > discuss ones we particularly like, or not. > > http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/47468793/namechange >
