Does it backronym to anything? Can it? ;) -tom On Mar 10, 2015 11:45 AM, "Damian Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmmm, thread about something as squishing and infinitely debatable as > a name. What could go wrong? But before you get excited I've already > picked one, this is just to sanity check with the community that I'm > not making a stupid mistake... again. > > Five years ago when I started arm [1] I had the following criteria for > picking its name... > > 1. It needs to be short. This is a terminal command so anything > lengthy is just begging people to alias it down. > > 2. It should be reasonably memorable. Sorry, no 'z62*'. > > 3. No naming conflict with other technical things. Body parts though > are fair game though. > > Clearly the name failed at #3. When I picked it the ARM processor was > just barely becoming a thing, but time marched on and now every irc > discussion goes... > > new_person: New relay operator here, any tips? > somebody: Hey, try arm! > new_person: The processor? I'm so confused now. > somebody: Nope, something completely different. It's a confusing name. > > I'm rewriting the whole bloody codebase so why not fix this along the way? > > So without further ado the name I've picked is 'Seth'. It's easy to > type (#1), memorable (#2), and from what I can tell no SETH processors > are on the horizon. I've reserved the name on PyPI, and searchs on > wikipedia looks fine (most interesting match is the Egyptian god [2], > which is actually kinda neat). > > So now just a final sanity check with you, our wonderful community. > Any strong reasons to pick something else? Nothing is set in stone yet > so still open to alternatives. > > Cheers! -Damian > > > [1] https://www.atagar.com/arm/ > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_%28mythology%29 > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev >
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