Call it the Allies and be done with it. Darrin
On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 12:54 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > To me, the reason for changing the name is to accomodate the merging > of the development communities. While we are sort of one community, > the reality is that there are people active on soap-dev who are not > on axis-dev and vice versa. Similar the WASP developers have an > identity which they may or may not want to combine under the axis > name (I don't speak for them). > > Changing the name from axis to foo would be a way to welcome all > three groups of participants to one joint community. If the joint > community is named according to one of the constituent communities > then the communal feeling is less. IMO, of course. > > So, its for mushy reasons like that. If others (from soap-dev > and wasp developers) feel its ok to call the resulting thing axis > then I may not object. However, to me that would add confusion too > as the intent is to grow the combined project beyond being just a > soap impl and axis is scoped as a soap implementation. > > Sanjiva. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Axis Development List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:33 PM > Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: New name for combined SOAP implementation project > > >> Just wondering - what's wrong with just keeping "Axis"? Its already >> a pretty generic name. >> -Dug >> >> >> "Sanjiva Weerawarana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/28/2001 08:09:58 >> PM >> >> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To: "Apache SOAP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Axis Development List" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> cc: >> Subject: PROPOSAL: New name for combined SOAP implementation project >> >> >> >> In recent weeks there was a discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> about combining the SOAP implementation efforts in Apache into >> one project. Longer term, other Web services efforts may also be >> added to this same combined project. The main motivation for >> combining these efforts is to make the community stronger by >> combining the now separated communities. >> >> We have 3 separate SOAP implementations at hand (listed in historical >> order): >> - Apache SOAP >> - Apache Axis >> - WASP - a contribution from Systinet that's yet to be committed >> >> The proposal is to combine the three to form one SOAP implementation >> project at Apache. Apache SOAP is now the historical implementation >> and Axis is intended to be a replacement for it. WASP should be used >> in evolving Axis to basically take the best of both and make the next >> major rewrite of Apache's SOAP implementation. >> >> So, in order to get moving on this we have to agree on a name for the >> combined SOAP implementation project. What I suggest is that we come >> up with a few suggestions and then have a vote. >> >> To start the process I propose the name "ceylon" .. it comes from >> a random chat that Dims and I had during some of the preparation >> for this note! Let's spend a few days coming up with candidate >> names and then narrow down a list and call a vote. >> >> Bye, >> >> Sanjiva. >> >> >> λφ(decentric.org)だ
