Hi Julian, I agree with Christofer. But perhaps we could add a suffix to the name if absolutely necessary. It doesn't take away the already known title and at the same time signals a new direction.
Regards On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 2:56 PM Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > Hi Julian, > > Well even if it is possible to vote on changing a name, I would strongly > suggest to reconsider doing so. > Here the reasons: > > Changing the name would require us to: > - Update all Maven coordinates > - Update all documentation > - Update all packages in the project > - Rename/Recreate all code repos and mirrors > - Rename/Recreate all mailinglists > - Rename/Recreate Jira Project > - Rename/Recreate Confluence Project > - Rename/Recreate Jenkins Jobs > - Re-Do a Podling-Name-Search > > And another thing ... Edgent started as "Quarks" but was already renamed > once in the past. I don’t think it's a great idea to do this again. > > And I have to admit that I quite like the name as it fits perfectly for a > platform for Edge computing. > > Chris > > Am 04.03.19, 09:46 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" < > j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de>: > > Hi all, > > there is another question in my mind about the edgent project. > As most of you may know, we are currently starting to “revive” the > project with a totally new team, as the old community somehow went lost (I > think there was a big engagement of IBM which was drastically reduced, this > may be one of the reasons). > > So if we achieve to grow the community again and revive the project > with some ideas I ask myself if it would not be good to discuss of the > name. As this name was chosen by the “former” (P)PMC with their ideas and > use cases they had in mind I wonder if it is possible for a podling to > change its name? > If this is theoretically possible, I would give us some months to see > how we proceed and if we have the impression that we have a vital community > growing, then I would start a formal vote for that and also start > discussion about new names. > > Perhaps our Mentors Chris and Justin can comment on that? > > Thanks > Julian > > > -- *Nuwan Jayawardene* Computer Science Undergraduate at Informatics Institute of Technology(IIT), Colombo Tel - +94 71 181 3299 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nuwanjaya/ https://medium.com/@nuwanjaya
