The Monthy Pythons could sing that and never be wrong.
Le 17 avril 2016 15:43:07 GMT+02:00, Enrico Zini <[email protected]> a écrit : >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 <[email protected]> -- Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec K-9 Mail. Veuillez excuser ma brièveté.
