+1
-> richard
Alex Karasulu wrote:
Hello all,
For several reasons to follow I think we should change the name of
this project/podling to something other than Oscar. Right now I have
no recommendations for a name and this is not as important as agreeing
to change the name. Whatever the present day Oscar incubator podling
is renamed to is fine by me as long as the name used is not Oscar and
does not impose any trademark infringement issues. This vote is to
confirm that we are all in agreement with this position. My reasons
for the name change are:
1. The name Oscar misrepresents our goal of building a unified OSGi
effort here where other communities involved with OSGi, such as
Knopplerfish and the Eclipse Runtime Project, are welcome to
participate. The initial code base is coming from Oscar but this
might change if other communities decide to donate code as well. We
would like to pick a neutral name for the project so those communities
understand our intentions. They should be free to donate code without
a bias towards Oscar.
2. Some have misinterpreted the new Oscar podling as a move of Oscar
1.0 from ObjectWeb to Apache. This is not the case and officers from
both ObjectWeb and Apache have been contacted on this matter.
ObjectWeb unofficially has approved the use of the name Oscar for the
Oscar 2.0 code being donated to the ASF. Regardless there is no
reason why there should be any confusion at all. It is in our and
ObjectWeb's best interest to change the name to something else.
3. Oscar is pretty well known as a OSGi container however it is not
that easy for a novice to read the name and understand what the
software is generally about. A descriptive name may lead to better
search engine lookups and give users a more intuitive name to follow
up on.
NOTE: Binding votes are those votes coming from PPMC members and from
Incubator PMC members. If there is any question at all here's a list
of the PPMC membership: akarasulu, bloritsch, cziegeler, erodriguez,
noel, sylvain, trustin, tbennet, rickhall.
[X] +1 Change the name to something else.
[ ] 0 Does not matter to me either way.
[ ] -1 Do not change the name.
I have already cast my +1.
Thanks,
Alex
