Hi, On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Ard Schrijvers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> > wrote: >> My personal favorite so far is "Jonsai" (as in Java + Bonsai) that >> Michael D. suggested in a lunch conversation last week. > > Bonsai might give a perception of small, and not 'BigTree' kind at all
Right, that's why I was trying to come up with something starting from the "big tree" idea. The mentioned "BigTree" is IMHO too clunky and way too close to the already existing "Bigtop" project [1]. The idea Justin was leading with Sequioa (Redwood), Cypress or something similar seems promising, but most of such names are already used in the software domain. A slightly mangled name like in "Jonsai" might work here. One possible alternative is the "Oak" name I've been using in a somewhat related effort within Apache Labs [2]. That effort never went too far, so if people like it we could reuse the name for jr3. Quoting from my Labs mail about the name: "PS. The project name is based on a subplot about a mighty oak-tree [3] in the Finnish national epic Kalevala. It's also a reference to the large-scale tree hierarchy inherent in the planned Oak architecture. I know the name conflicts with the old name of Java and a few other projects out there, but at least for the duration of the lab I think the name is unique enough." [1] http://incubator.apache.org/bigtop/ [2] http://markmail.org/message/5arnqmom5tel7vtx [3] http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/kvrune02.htm BR, Jukka Zitting
