On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
I personally like oak a lot. In general I am, but that is of course just taste, not too charmed with: 1) portmanteau's like jonsai 2) with very complex to write and remember names like Leporidae (sry Nour) Oak is catchy, I like oaks, everybody knows what they are, easy to remember and pronounce, and, for what it's worth, the JIRA key can be the same as the project name :) +1 for oak Regards Ard > 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 -- Amsterdam - Oosteinde 11, 1017 WT Amsterdam Boston - 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142 US +1 877 414 4776 (toll free) Europe +31(0)20 522 4466 www.onehippo.com
