On Sep 14, 2012, at 14:51 EDT, Luke Schierer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sep 13, 2012, at 18:10 EDT, Ethan Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Tres Finocchiaro spake unto us the following wisdom: >>> When the Pidgin project was ready to change names, how did it pick >>> "Pidgin"? Was it something on IRC that caught a developers eye, or >>> was Denis responsible for this creative name as well? >> >> The developers had a very long discussion about this, and decided it >> among ourselves. The Pidgin suggestion came from (I believe) Sean >> Egan, who was lead developer at the time. > > As best I can tell from the partial archives I have access to (I could have > sworn I had saved all those old threads, but I cannot figure out where I put > them), You actually proposed the name pidgin Ethan. > > Luke Found my full archive, and Ethan was right. Sean did propose it first, back on 2006-04-10. We'd (at that point) only been debating names since 2005-10-12. Luke _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
