Stephen Browne wrote:
> On 06/25/09 08:31, Dermot McCluskey wrote:
>> Brian,
>>
>> "jds", as used in URLs, etc, it taken from the project's Short Name
>> in the OpenSolaris.org project DB and it's the one thing that cannot
>> be changed. The only possibility here would be to start a new project
>> and cancel the old one, and I don't think we want to go to that far.
>>
>> Mailing list names and CBE variable names can change over time,
>> but it would be a big inconvenience to change all that right now.
>>
>> "Trusted JDS" was (is?) the actual name of a product (as was "JDS
>> Linux"),
>
> No it isn't. Trusted JDS was a project name used to refer to the
> Trusted mode of operation of JDS when Solaris Trusted Extensions were
> configured in Solaris 10.
>
> Ongoing Trusted Desktop development is tightly coupled with our
> vanilla desktop releases. It is just a configuration of Solaris that
> makes the Trusted Desktop available.
>
> There has not been a separate Trusted product since Trusted Solaris 8.
>
> I hope this is more clear.
>
>> so it doesn't make sense to refer to Trusted OSD until such a product
>> exists.
>
> Thats gonna be a long time since no product will ever exist :)
>
> I have no intention of using the term Trusted OSD, however, as I feel
> OSD is just a different TLA that needs explanation and will go out of
> fashion or loose relevance just as quickly as JDS.
>
> Why can't we just call a spade a spade. Its a GNOME desktop, why does
> it need some other TLA?
Its not a GNOME desktop as it includes numerous other applications that
do not come from GNOME, such as Firefox and Thunderbird. IMO it should
be simply the Solaris Desktop
>
> BTW, http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/gnome/
> has references to JDS.
>
> Stephen.
>
>> Also, I added a paragraph to the main project page saying that any
>> reference to JDS can be taken to mean OpenSolaris Desktop, which should
>> at least help explain any un-migrated names.
>>
>>
>> - Dermot
>>
>>
>> Brian Cameron wrote:
>>> Dermot:
>>>
>>>> As you may have noticed, the OpenSolaris.org project we were
>>>> previously referring to as "Java Desktop System: A GNOME-based
>>>> desktop" is now called "OpenSolaris Desktop". I have also updated
>>>> the pages within the project, changing JDS to OSD, etc.
>>>>
>>>> The URL for the project (and svn repositories) continues to contain
>>>> jds, eg: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/
>>>
>>> Looks really good. Some minor comments.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't we change the link so it doesn't have jds at the end?
>>> Perhaps the main projects website:
>>>
>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/projects/
>>>
>>> Should link to http://www.opensolaris.orig/os/projects/osd/?
>>> We should probably keep the old link as a redirect to the new
>>> website.
>>>
>>> In "Building the code" I notice it says that the CBE still installs
>>> stuff to /opt/jdsbld and puts its log in /tmp/jds-cbe-1.6.1.install.log
>>> and uses the JDS_CBE_ENV_QUIET environment variable. And the
>>> download site for the CBE has a "jds" in it:
>>> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/cbe/
>>>
>>> Probably should change those too (and any other "JDS" references) in
>>> the
>>> next version of the CBE. Laca?
>>>
>>> Also what about the jds-review at opensolaris.org mailing list. Should
>>> we replace that with osd-review?
>>>
>>> Should we also change the "jds" in the svn repository? It currently
>>> is:
>>>
>>> svn+ssh://anon at svn dot opensolaris dot org/svn/jds/spec-files/trunk
>>>
>>> And what about "Trusted JDS" mentioned on "Solaris Desktop Gaps"? Is
>>> that now "Trusted OSD"?
>>>
>>> Brian
>>
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