I've created a Doodle poll with the options named so far. https://doodle.com/poll/vcr2nasruzkg4r4g
This is just so we can get a sense of peoples' opinions, it won't be binding! Also maybe some people will respond that wouldn't want to reply to the whole list. On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Povey <dpo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the naming ideas! > > Since many of these ideas are family-related I had a look for synonyms > for 'offspring' that begin with s (so that we have no difficulty > explaining why the binaries still have 'sge' in the name). > > https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offspring > > There is 'spawn of GridEngine'. (Also 'seed of GridEngine' but it > seems a bit too sexual to me.. . maybe spawn would be better). I feel > like 'sister of GridEngine' maybe doesn't sit well with the fact that > the project is a derivation of Son of GridEngine, not a parallel > project. 'spawn' still sounds like it could be in a horror movie, but > I'm OK with that. > > Dan > > > On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Afif Elghraoui <a...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> >> On May 11, 2018 7:46:39 PM EDT, Daniel Povey <dpo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>RE the name-- if we used the same name and the U. of Liverpool people >>>were to become active again, or notice the duplication, I'm concerned >>>that there might be confusion. (Plus, a unique name is easier for >>>google-search purposes, so there is no confusion about the location of >>>the project). I'd rather only use the same name with Dave Love's >>>blessing, but that is depenent on being able to contact him. However, >>>if most others want to to keep the same name, I'd be OK with it. >>> >> >> I tried to keep myself out of proposing a name, but...if you wanted to keep >> the SGE abbreviation again like Dave tried to do, another name is "sister of >> grid engine" >> >> Afif _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@gridengine.org https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
