Hi Harald, > Let me put it the other way around: Wouldn't you also feel weird if we > suddenly started a "FreeCalypso2" project?
Poor analogy: FC is a family of loosely related projects like Osmocom (see footnote), not a single specific project like SIMtrace. I am not claiming an "Osmocom2" project, am I? > Or a "Osmocom FCDEV4B board" Saying "Osmocom FCxxx" would be a self-contradiction, but if you were to design a quadband Calypso board, you would have every right to call it something like "Osmocom CalypsoDev4B". The 3B at the end of FCDEV3B stands for triband, and I put it in the name back in 2015 because it was an explicit step backward from my original plan of aiming directly for a quadband Leonardo+ re-creation. > Please stop at the > very least using the "SIMtrace plus a number" naming scheme, or consider > to stop using the SIMtrace name altogether. UICCtrace? CardTrace? Would it be OK with you if I call my project FreeCalypso SIMsniff in formal naming contexts and simply SIMsniff in casual conversation with Vintage Mobile Phone community members wondering why phone model ABC mysteriously refuses to accept SIM card model XYZ? In formal naming contexts the full names of the two projects would be Osmocom SIMtrace vs FreeCalypso SIMsniff - it should be obvious that they are distinct, but the similarity will also make it clear that they aim for the same utility niche and that one was probably created in response to perceived shortcomings of the other, which is factual truth. Under this proposal the two current binaries named simtrace3-sniff-rx and simtrace3-sniff-dec would become simsniff-rx and simsniff-dec, respectively, and the Hg repository will be renamed from simtrace-ice to fc-sim-sniff. Please confirm if my rename proposal is acceptable to you or not - renames are obviously disruptive, hence I will only make the rename once the new name is approved by all parties. I will also pause the design and production of my next-planned sniffer pod board until this naming agreement is reached, to avoid producing PCBs with the wrong name on the silk screen. Please also note that my alternative SIM-ME protocol tracer project reuses existing SIMtrace FPC cables, the ones which you already offer separately in your webshop - and one could regard these physical SIM socket FPC adapters as the most important part of SIMtrace... M~ Footnote: FreeCalypso began life in 2013 as an off-shoot of then-existing free-falling remains of Openmoko community, and it is my understanding that Osmocom is somewhat of a genealogical derivative of Openmoko too, at least in terms of key people involved. By this logic, Osmocom and FreeCalypso should be seen as siblings, with Osmocom as the big brother and FC as the little sister.
