,----[ Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] | On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Anand Babu wrote: | | > I recently came across your "fish" (friendly interactive shell) | > project. Our GNU FreeIPMI project has a shell called "fish" | > (FreeIpmi SHell) too. GNU FreeIPMI is already a GNU project. Would | > you consider changing your project name. You may also submit your | > project as GNU Project and rename your binary to "gnufish" or | > "gfish" if you like. | | Oh dear, this is bad news. I'd never heard of FreeIpmi before today. | When I first chose the name fish for my shell, about three or four | years ago, I did a web search for the name fish, and I could not | find any free software projects with the same name. Before I made | the first public release of fish early this year, I made another | search of Google, Sourceforge, Freshmeat, etc, and while there where | a few projects called fish, none of them seemed serious. It seems | the FreeIPMI shell somehow flies below the radar. | | I'm not too thrilled by the idea of changing the name of my shell, | for the following reasons: | | * Looking at FreeIPMI, it seems the the FreeIPMI shell is a very | different program from the friendly interactive shell, so I don't | think the risk of confusion is very high. | | * The friendly interactive shell is already in Debian unstable under | the name fish, and several thousand people have downloaded it from | my site. A namechange might lead to a lot of confusion and headache | for my users. | | * I already have fish registered at sourceforge and at freshmeat, | there is a Wikipedia entry for fish, etc. The time and effort to | change all these things is huge, and I do not have the time. There | are also articles about fish in places such as Linux Weekly News | (lwn.net) that I can't change myself, mening they might point users | to the wrong place. | | * There are several other free software projects also called fish, | as well as a KDE kio slave. Renaming my shell won't make your fish | have a unique name. | | * I like the name fish, I do not like the names gfish, gnufish or | any other similar names. | | I'm not sure what should be done about this situation, but I'm not | at all thrilled about the idea of changing the name of my project. `----
Alright, I will think about renaming our 'fish' to 'ipmi-fish' :( -- Anand Babu GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 Personal Blog [http://freedom.freeshell.org] The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org] _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel