Having gone through project renames from Jsecurity to Ki to Shiro, I can attest that it's much less painful to change the name sooner rather than later. If there's even an indication that a naming/trademark conflict may occur, it almost certainly will at some point. I realize this is not a naming suggestion thread, but "Apache Holler" would stay with the theme and might be easy to get accepted.
Kalle On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote: > >> Hi Alan, >> >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Alan Gates <ga...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: >> >>> We are taking it seriously. We (Howl mentors and committers) discussed >>> this and the consensus seemed to be we wanted to stay with the name if >>> possible. The feedback on this list was mixed, with many for changing it >>> and some not worried about it. So we wanted to stick with it for now and >>> see how it went. >>> >>> >> I'm not here to create a problem for y'all. Keep in mind I +1'd the proposal >> even though I had some reservations about all of you being Yahoo'ers. You >> can work on that in the incubator - no problem to diversify while >> incubating. > > I think the majority of those voting +1 for incubation wanted the name > changed based on the concerns that were raised. I would be concerned about a > release being done as howl while in the incubator and would certainly vote -1 > to leaving it unless a) it is definitely determined that no trademark > conflicts exist (this may require contacting the other parties and getting > their permission) or b) the name is changed to something that doesn't have > similar conflicts. > > Ralph > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
