+1
Tom Enderes
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
