On 13.08.2013 02:03, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
No one else remember the old Satan monitoring toolkit, that had an option
to change the displayed name and icon to Santa?
The name Subversion has enough positive reputation that changing it, just
to avoid NSA style monitoring, seems very
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Glenn Holmer ghol...@weycogroup.com wrote:
On 08/12/2013 03:51 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
Apache Subversion actually started as Inversion around December
1999, or January 2000. It wasn't until April 2000, that we accepted
Subversion as a rename. It had version in
On 08/15/2013 06:18 AM, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Glenn Holmer ghol...@weycogroup.com wrote:
On 08/12/2013 03:51 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
Apache Subversion actually started as Inversion around December
1999, or January 2000. It wasn't until April 2000, that we
On 8/12/2013 8:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
No one else remember the old Satan monitoring toolkit, that had an
option to change the displayed name and icon to Santa?
The name Subversion has enough positive reputation that changing
it, just to avoid NSA style monitoring, seems very
On 2013/08/12 5:25 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Glenn Holmer ghol...@weycogroup.com wrote:
On 08/12/2013 03:51 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
Apache Subversion actually started as Inversion around December
1999, or January 2000. It wasn't until April 2000, that we
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:23:35PM -0400, Thomas Harold wrote:
We get around this whole issue with our users by either always
saying Subversion instead of subversion so that it's clear we're
talking about a proper noun instead of a verb. Or by just using
SVN.
Ah, the Secret Vigilante
On Aug 11, 2013, at 20:24, Bill George wrote:
I know it is standard practice in programming to use common words in the
English language for specific software terminology or naming. However, this
has often caused confusions.
If you go through the story of Goldman Sachs programmer Serge
Guten Tag Bill George,
am Montag, 12. August 2013 um 03:24 schrieben Sie:
Hence this is my strong suggestion : next release, please consider
altering the name subversion to something else.
You don't really expect a project name to change this fast, don't
you?! ;-)
At least
Sub-version.
Am 12.08.2013 03:24, schrieb Bill George:
This is to prevent confusion to non-technical people who could
mistake the meaning of the name and associate it to negative activity
like hacking or stealing. Just a thought and suggestion that could
have far reaching implications.
There is nothing
On 12/08/2013 6:01 PM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
Am 12.08.2013 03:24, schrieb Bill George:
This is to prevent confusion to non-technical people who could
mistake the meaning of the name and associate it to negative activity
like hacking or stealing. Just a thought and suggestion that could
have
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Ryan Schmidt
subversion-20...@ryandesign.com wrote:
Should the GIMP change its name because (when not referring to the
software) that can be a derogatory term? Should git change its name because
(when not referring to the software) that term can be used as an
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:41:03AM -0400, Andy Levy wrote:
...
probably suggested it for git as well. And isn't there a (possibly
apocryphal) story about the blame (either in CVS or SVN) being
aliased to annotate and praise because a manager somewhere didn't
like the negative connotation of
On 08/12/2013 03:51 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
Apache Subversion actually started as Inversion around December
1999, or January 2000. It wasn't until April 2000, that we accepted
Subversion as a rename. It had version in the name, and we *were*
trying to subvert the CVS installations/community, so
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Glenn Holmer ghol...@weycogroup.com wrote:
On 08/12/2013 03:51 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
Apache Subversion actually started as Inversion around December
1999, or January 2000. It wasn't until April 2000, that we accepted
Subversion as a rename. It had version in
Wait a minute, he also erased his bash history. Was he suspected of
covering up assaults as well??
I don't think the suspicion arose because the repository was named
subversion. I think it was because source code was being transferred to
an outside location. It could have been called Utter
No one else remember the old Satan monitoring toolkit, that had an option to
change the displayed name and icon to Santa?
The name Subversion has enough positive reputation that changing it, just to
avoid NSA style monitoring, seems very destabilizing to a popular project.
Let's not change it.
Hello Apache,
I know it is standard practice in programming to use common words in the
English language for specific software terminology or naming. However, this
has often caused confusions.
If you go through the story of Goldman Sachs programmer Serge Aleynikov who
was accused convicted of
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